What is the significance of the Ashir and Oni meeting?
Refer to 22:2:2:1.
R. Yonah: The Ashir did not get his wealth via his strength and intellect. The Oni did not become poor due to weakness and lack of intellect. The Galgal (Mazal) encountered both of them and made them so. Therefore, the Ashir should not glorify himself over the Oni.
Malbim: This is why a good name is better than great wealth. Wealth is not a constant Kinyan, for the Ashir and Oni meet. They do not stand in one place, that he is always rich and he is always poor, and they never meet. Rather, they ascend and descend on a ladder. If initially when the Ashir ascended and the Oni descended they met (at one point they were equal) on the way. Later, the Ashir will descend and the Oni will ascend, for [wealth and poverty] are a wheel that rotates in the world; they will meet again. Hashem makes ladders - he lowers this one and raises this one (Bereishis Rabah 68:4). He constantly makes rich and poor; so He established conduct [of the world]. Unlike wealth, a good name will not be lost.
Why does it say that Hashem makes all of them?
Temurah 16a:
Rashi: When an Oni asks an Ashir to finance him, and he answers harshly, Hashem makes all of them a new (status) - the Ashir becomes an Oni, and vice-versa.
R. Yonah: Do not err to say that since wealth and poverty are due to Mikreh of the Galgal, Hashem did not decree them. No! Hashem made all of them; He can withhold a cause and bring a cause.
