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Selected Verse: Proverbs 18:23 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 18:23	King James	The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the rich . . . roughly--He is tolerated because rich, implying that the estimate of men by wealth is wrong.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

the rich . . . roughly--He is tolerated because rich, implying that the estimate of men by wealth is wrong.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Note the paradox. The poor man, of whom one might expect roughness, supplicates; the rich, well nurtured, from whom one might look for courtesy, answers harshly and brusquely.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Note the paradox. The poor man, of whom one might expect roughness, supplicates; the rich, well nurtured, from whom one might look for courtesy, answers harshly and brusquely.

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