Keil & Delitzsch, on Prov 13:7

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

“Two proverbs of riches and poverty: - There is one who maketh himself rich and hath nothing; There is another who representeth himself poor amid great riches. A sentence which includes in itself the judgment which Pro 12:9 expresses. To the Hithpa. התכּבּד (to make oneself of importance) there are associated here two others, in the meaning to make oneself something, without anything after it, thus to place oneself so or so, Ewald, 124a. To the clauses with ו there is supplied a self-intelligible לּו.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.