The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
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Gill's Exposition
The ransom of a man's life are his riches,.... As Benhadad's were to him, when he was in the hands of the king of Israel, Kg1 20:34; and as the treasures the ten men had in the field were to them, for…
Barnes' Notes
On the one side is the seeming advantage of wealth. The rich man who gets out of many troubles often escapes from a just retribution by his money. But then the poor man in his turn is free from the…
Matthew Henry
We are apt to judge of men's blessedness, at least in this world, by their wealth, and that they are more or less happy accordingly as they have more or less of this world's goods; but Solomon here…
Cambridge Bible
heareth i.e. heedeth. Comp. Pro 13:1.
rebuke Rather threatening; ἀπειλήν, LXX.
If wealth has its advantage in enabling its possessor to purchase deliverance from danger and death (as, for example, by…
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