Proverbs 22:2 (BSB)

The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:2: Note, 1. Among the children of men divine Providence has so ordered it that some are rich and others poor, and these are intermixed in societies: The Lord is the Maker of both, both the author of their being and the disposer of their lot.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:2: The rich and poor meet together,.... In an hostile way, as some; they rush upon one another; the rich despise the poor, and the poor envy the rich; they cannot speak well one of another, as the Arabic version; or they are dependent on one another, they cannot do without each other; as in the natural body one member cannot say to another, I have...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:2: Before God all are on the same footing (Pro 14:31; Pro 17:5).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:2: The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all. (b) Live together, and have need the one of the other.