Proverbs 28:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Proverbs 28:3 - Albert 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...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Second Division, Proverbs 28 f. In general character this division resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets. Proverbs 28:2 b. The text is uncertain, and various render...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  poor . needy. Same root as in verses: Proverbs 28:6 ; Proverbs 28:19 ; Proverbs 28:27 . Not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 28:3 ; Proverbs 28:8 ; Proverbs 28:11 ; Proverbs 3:15 ; Prove...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. A poor man that oppresseth the poor - Our Lord illustrates this proverb most beautifully, by the parable of the tw...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. A poor man ( geber ( H1397 ): a tyrant, a man of might) that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rai...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Observations relating chiefly to Social Life 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15.

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A poor man that oppresseth the poor. — If the recollection of his own former troubles has not softened his heart towards his poor neighbours, he will be rendered more callous to their sufferings....

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that fear...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 28:2 . "The transgression of a land" must be understood as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb means that a multiplicity of princes is an evil, but men of...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. Ver. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, &c. ] Such an oppressor bites hard (as a lean louse doth), mak...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A poor man that oppresseth the poor Who, being advanced into a place of authority, abuses it, to oppress those that are poor, and unable to resist him; is like a sweeping rain , or flood, which l...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back to the wilderness path, where walk and ways must be tested b...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.       See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing suc...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When a poor man being advanced into a place of authority, abuseth it to oppress those that are poor and unable to resist him, he is like a violent rain or flood, which washeth away the very seeds whi...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 28:3 THE MOST INEXCUSABLE OPPRESSION I. Oppression from an unexpected quarter . Although poverty sometimes has a very hardening influence upon men, we do not often...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 28:2 . By a man of understanding the state shall be prolonged. Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in Rome; the Walpoles, the Chathams in England? In Lord Chatham's time i...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the various destinies of the powerful and the weak, the...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Consequences of Impiety

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Matthew 18:28-30

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Divine Contrasts Proverbs 28:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We will bring out several statements in the beginning of the chapter. 1....

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 28:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  It like — Is like a violent rain or flood, which washes away the very seeds in the earth. He is the worst of all oppressors.

  Read the comments