Proverbes 22:16

Darby's French Translation

Celui qui opprime le pauvre, ce sera pour l'enrichir; celui qui donne au riche, ce sera pour le faire tomber dans l'indigence.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Celui qui fait tort au pauvre pour s'accroître, et qui donne au riche, ne peut manquer de tomber dans l'indigence.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Celui qui fait tort au pauvre pour s'enrichir, donne au riche, pour n'aboutir qu'à l'indigence.

Louis Segond (1910)
Opprimer le pauvre pour augmenter son bien, C'est donner au riche pour n'arriver qu'à la disette.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that oppresseth: Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 28:3, Job 20:19-29, Psalms 12:5, Micah 2:2, Micah 2:3, Zechariah 7:9-14, James 2:13, James 5:1-5

he that giveth: Luke 6:33-35, Luke 14:12-14, Luke 16:24

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 24:14 - General Job 24:4 - turn Psalms 10:9 - when Proverbs 17:18 - void Proverbs 22:7 - rich Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Habakkuk 2:6 - that increaseth 1 Timothy 6:9 - they James 2:6 - Do

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches],.... By taking away from them the little they have; by keeping back their hire, defrauding them of the just wages of their labours; or by usury and extortion, or any other unjust method, whereby they distress the poor, and enrich themselves;

[and] he that giveth to the rich [shall] surely [come] to want: that gives to those that are richer than he; or that are in greater power and authority, that they may protect him in the possession of his ill gotten riches; yet, after all, it shall not thrive and prosper with him, it will all issue in poverty and want: or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "he shall give to one more rich, and shall want"; he shall be forced to give it to another richer than he, and of greater power, and so shall get nothing by his oppression of the poor; but as he has served the poor, so shall he be served himself, and be brought to beggary and want; see Proverbs 21:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Better, He who oppresses the poor for his own profit gives. (i. e., will, in the common course of things, be compelled to give) to a rich man, and that only to his own loss. Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, and only expose the oppressor to extortion and violence in his turn.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:16. He that oppresseth the poor — He who, in order to obtain the favour of the rich and great, either robs or cheats the poor, to make those men presents; or gives in presents to them, for the sake of honour and reputation, what he should have given to the poor, shall surely come to want.