Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high, together rich and needy.
Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
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Both rich and poor together are called to a single vocation and invited to a certain humility and equality. The rich are not to turn up their noses at the poor, and the poor are not to be jealous of the rich. One grace joins both together. The Lord, though he was rich, became poor, so as to be Savior of poor and rich alike.
Ambrose of Milan· Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms, On Psalm 49, 397patristic
Both low and high,.... Or "both the sons of Adam and the sons of men".
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Ver. 2. Both low and high, rich and poor, together. Sons of great men, and children of mean men, men of large estate, and ye who pine in poverty, ye are all bidden to hear the inspired minstrel as he touches his harp to a mournful but instructive lay. The low will be encouraged, the high will be warned, the rich will be sobered, the poor consoled, there will be a useful lesson for each if they are willing to learn it. Our preaching ought to have a voice for all classes, and all should have an ear for it.
Hear and give ear, Ps. lxii. Not only, "Hear, all you Israelites, and give ear all the inhabitants of Canaan," but, Hear, all you people, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the world; for this doctrine is not peculiar to those that are blessed with divine revelation, but even the light of nature witnesses to it.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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Proverbs 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
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Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
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Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
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You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
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Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
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For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
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Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!
For I will bend Judah as My bowand fit it with Ephraim.I will rouse your sons, O Zion,against the sons of Greece.I will make you like the swordof a mighty man.
