Proverbs 13:7
Good News Translation
Some people pretend to be rich, but have nothing. Others pretend to be poor, but own a fortune.

New Revised Standard Version
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Contemporary English Version
Some who have nothing may pretend to be rich, and some who have everything may pretend to be poor.

New American Bible
One acts rich but has nothing; another acts poor but has great wealth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

is that maketh himself rich

Proverbs 13:11 Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.

Proverbs 12:9 The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Luke 18:11-14 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:8 You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

that maketh himself poor

Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:10,11 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

Revelation 2:9 I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Context
A Father's Discipline
6Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. 7One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.8The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.…
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 12:21
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

Luke 12:33
Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

2 Corinthians 6:10
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

James 2:5
Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Proverbs 11:24
The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.

Proverbs 13:6
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