Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
poor	רָ֤שׁ rash	H7326	to be destitute · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
deceitful	תָּכָךְ tâkâk	H8501	to dissever
man	וְאִ֣ישׁ ve.'Ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
together	נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ nif.Ga.shu	H6298	to come in contact with · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
lighteneth	מֵ֤אִיר Me.'ir-	H215	to be (causative · verb, hiphil active participle, masculine singular absolute
both	שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם she.nei.Hem	H8147	two · cardinal number, both genders dual construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
eyes	עֵינֵ֖י 'ei.Nei	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · noun, common feminine dual construct

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Cross-references

Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain o…
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Psalms 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Exodus 22:25-26 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Leviticus 25:35-37 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner;…
Nehemiah 5:5-7 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters…
Matthew 9:9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:13

This shows how wisely the great God serves the designs of his providence by persons of very different tempers, capacities, and conditions in the world, even, 1. By those that are contrary the one to the other. Some are poor and forced to borrow; others are rich, have a great deal of the mammon of unrighteousness (deceitful riches they are called), and they are creditors, or usurers, as it is in the margin. Some are poor, and honest, and laborious; others are rich, slothful, and deceitful. They meet together in the business of this world, and have dealings with one another, and the Lord enlightens both their eyes; he causes his sun to shine upon both and gives them both the comforts of this l…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 29:13

(Compare Pro 22:2). deceitful man--literally, "man of vexations," an exactor. the Lord . . . their eyes--sustains their lives (Sa1 14:27; Psa 13:3); that is, both depend on Him, and He will do justice.

John Gill on Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the deceitful man meet together,.... Or "the usurer" (q); who by usury, by fraud and deception, is possessed of the mammon of unrighteousness, and is become rich; he and the poor man meet together; and so the sense is the same as in Proverbs 22:2; See Gill on Proverbs 22:2; the Lord lighteneth both their eyes; with the light of natural life, and with the light of natural reason, John 1:4; and so is the same as being "the Maker of them all", in the above place; or he bestows his providential favours on both; causes his sun to shine upon the rich and poor, the wicked and the righteous, Matthew 5:45. Or it may be understood of the light of grace; for though, for the most part, God…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 29:13

13 The poor man and the usurer meet together - Jahve lighteneth the eyes of both. A variation of Pro 22:2, according to which the proverb is to be understood in both of its parts. That אישׁ תּככים is the contrast of רשׁ, is rightly supposed in Temura 16b; but Rashi, who brings out here a man of moderate learning, and Saadia, a man of a moderate condition (thus also the Targ. גּברא מצעיא, after Buxtorf, homo mediocris fortunae), err by connecting the word with תּוך. The lxx δανειστοῦ καὶ χρεωφειλέτου (ἀλλήλοις συνελθόντων), which would be more correct inverted, for אישׁ תככים is a man who makes oppressive taxes, high previous payments of interest; the verbal stem תּכך, Arab. tak, is a…

The Church Fathers

The poor man and creditor meet each other, etc. The poor man is the humble listener of the word of God; the creditor, however, is he who commits the money of the same word by preaching to him; they meet each other when they converge into the same grace of piety. And God is the illuminator of both, because neither that one could preach without divine piety, nor could this one believe. Indeed, the truthful sentence of Truth remains, which says, "Without me, you can do nothing" (John 15).
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Proverbs 29:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 29:13

John Gill on Proverbs 29:13

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 29:13

The Church Fathers

Proverbs 29:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 29:13

John Gill on Proverbs 29:13

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 29:13

The Church Fathers

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 29:13

Rashi on Proverbs 29:13