Solomon
Proverbs 22:2BSB·traditional attribution
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
Matthew Henry Presbyterian
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
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
Before God all are on the same footing (Pro 14:31; Pro 17:5).