A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
a poor man Better, with R.V., a needy man, the Hebrew word being different from that rendered poorimmediately after.
The proverb has commonly been held to refer to officialoppression. "A man in…