SEV Biblia, Chapter 28:3
ΒΆ El hombre pobre y robador de los pobres, es lluvia de avenida que deja sin pan.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:3
Verse 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor ] Our Lord illustrates this proverb most beautifully, by the parable of the two debtors, Matt. xviii. 23. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 3 - If needy persons get opportunities of oppressing, their extortion wil be more severe than that of the more wealthy.
Original Hebrew
גבר 1397 רשׁ 7326 ועשׁק 6231 דלים 1800 מטר 4306 סחף 5502 ואין 369 לחם׃ 3899
