Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses other poor people is like [MET] a very heavy/hard rain that destroys the crops, with the result that there is no food for people to eat.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2When the people of a nation sin, they will have one ruler after another; but when their leaders are wise and have good sense, their government will last for a long time.

4Those who reject/disobey God’s laws always speak well of wicked people; but those who obey God’s laws always oppose what wicked people do.

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Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:3

2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. Note, 1. National sins bring national disorders and the disturbance of the public repose: For the transgression of a land, and a general defection from God and religion to idolatry, profaneness, or immorality, many are the princes thereof, many at the same time pretending to the sovereignty and contending for it, by which the people are crumbled into parties and… Read the whole commentary →

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