Proverbs 28:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Proverbs 28:3 —

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Cross-References

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Matthew 18:28-30
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3)

See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing such good offices as they might do one to another, but imposing upon and over-reaching one another. Those who know by experience the miseries of poverty should be compassionate to those who suffer the like, but they are inexcusably barbarous if they be injurious to them. 2. How imperious and griping those c…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. A poor man, &c.--Such, in power, exact more severely, and so leave subjects bare.