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Proverbs 28:3
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A destitute leader who oppresses the pooris like a driving rain that leaves no food.
A needy man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
A poor man who oppresses the helpless Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.
Rulers who mistreat the poor are like a hard rain that destroys the crops.
A poor man who oppresses and exploits the lowly Is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
A needy man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.
A poor man who oppresses the lowlyIs a driving rain which leaves no food.
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
When someone poor takes over and mistreats the poor, it's like a heavy rain destroying the crops.
A poor man who oppresses the weak is like a downpour that sweeps away all the food.
A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which is of no benefit.
Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops.
A man who is poor and oppresses the impoverished is a beating rain that leaves no food.
A poor man that oppresses the weak is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.
One poore man oppressinge another by violence, is like a contynuall rayne that destroyeth ye frute.
A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
A poor man that oppresseth the weak is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A poore man that oppresseth the poore, is like a sweeping raine which leaueth no food.
One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.
As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so is a rod for a simple nation.
A needy man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A pore man falsli calengynge pore men, is lijk a grete reyn, wherynne hungur is maad redi.
A needy [noble] man that oppresses the poor Is [like] a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.
A poor person who oppresses the poor is like a pounding rain that destroys the crops.
A poor man who makes it hard for the poor is like a heavy rain which leaves no food.
A ruler who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
A poor man, who oppresseth the helpless, is like a rain beating down, leaving no food.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.
A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
The wicked who oppress the poor are like a hailstorm that beats down the harvest.
A poor man who oppresses the lowly Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
poor man: Matthew 18:28-30
which leaveth no food: Heb. without food
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Judges 6:4 - left no Job 20:10 - His children Job 37:6 - great Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Proverbs 30:22 - a servant Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ecclesiastes 10:17 - when Ezekiel 19:7 - and the land
Cross-References
God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth with your people.
I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth. If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.
While Rebekah was leaving they said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of millions of people, and may your descendants defeat their enemies and take their cities."
Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then Isaac gave him a command and said, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman.
Esau learned that his father Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. He also learned that Isaac commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.
Jacob was afraid and said, "This is a very great place. This is the house of God. This is the gate to heaven."
Jacob got up very early in the morning. He took the rock he had slept on and set it up on its edge. Then he poured oil on the rock. In this way he made it a memorial to God.
God said to him, "I am God All-Powerful, and I give you this blessing: Have many children and grow into a great nation. Other nations and other kings will come out of you.
Joseph named the second son Ephraim. Joseph gave him this name because he said, "I had great troubles, but God has made me successful in everything."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A poor man that oppresseth the poor,.... Either one that is poor at the time he oppresses another like himself, either by secret fraud or open injury; from whom the oppressed can get no redress, as sometimes he may and does from a rich man: or rather one that has been poor, but now become rich, and got into some place of authority and profit, who should remember what he had been; and it might be expected that such an one would put on bowels of compassion towards the poor, as knowing what it was to be in indigent circumstances; but if, instead of this, he exercises his authority over the poor in a severe and rigid manner, and oppresses them, and squeezes that little out of them they have: he
[is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food: like a violent hasty shower of rain; which, instead of watering the seed, herbs, and plants, and causing them to grow, as moderate rain does, it washes away the very seed sown in the earth, or beats out the ripe corn from the ears, or beats it down, so that it riseth not up again; the effect of which is, there is no bread to the eater, nor seed to the sower, and consequently a famine. The design of the proverb is, to show how unnatural as well as intolerable is the oppression of the poor, by one that has been poor himself; even as it is contrary to the nature and use of rain, which is to fructify, and not to sweep away and destroy; and which when it does, there is no standing against it or diverting it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
People raise a man of the people, poor like themselves, to power. They find him the worst oppressor of all, plundering them to their last morsels, like the storm-rain which sweeps off the seed-corn instead of bringing fertility.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 28:3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor — Our Lord illustrates this proverb most beautifully, by the parable of the two debtors, Matthew 18:23, c. One owed ten thousand talents, was insolvent, begged for time, was forgiven. A fellow servant owed this one a hundred pence: he was insolvent but prayed his fellow servant to give him a little time, and he would pay it all. He would not, took him by the throat, and cast him into prison till he should pay that debt. Here the poor oppressed the poor; and what was the consequence? The oppressing poor was delivered to the tormentors; and the forgiven debt charged to his amount, because he showed no mercy. The comparatively poor are often shockingly uncharitable and unfeeling towards the real poor.
Like a sweeping rain — These are frequent in the East; and sometimes carry flocks, crops, and houses, away with them.
