Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 28:8
Unjust gain - Omit “unjust:” “usury and gain” make up the notion of “gain derived from usury.” Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, after a time they pass into hands that know how to use them better.
Unjust gain - Omit “unjust:” “usury and gain” make up the notion of “gain derived from usury.” Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, after a time they pass into hands that know how to use them better.
Verse Proverbs 28:8. _HE THAT BY USURY - INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE_] By taking unlawful interest for his money; _lending_ to a man in great distress, money, for the use of which he requires an _exorbi...
CHAPTER 28 WARNINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The wicked is a coward; the righteous man, because he trusteth in the Lord and knows the Lord is on his side, is as bold as a lion. It is the conscience...
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 renderings are...
_unjust gain_ Rather, INCREASE, as A.V. marg. and R.V. text, μετὰ τόκων καὶ πλεονασμῶν, LXX. Comp. Leviticus 25:36-37. The idea of its being "unjust" is implied by the word "usury" with which it is a...
CHAPTER 28 TEXT Proverbs 28:1-9 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion. 2. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of under...
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Proverbs 13:22, end; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Job 27:16. Usury...
28:8 poor. (b-20) _ Dal_ , 'poor,' plural, as chs. 10.15; 22.16; 29.7,14....
OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15....
UNJUST GAIN] RV 'increase.' The OT. denounced usury and interest because it was assumed that the borrower was a person in distress (Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:19; Psalms 15:5). That is quite a diffe...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 28 V1 A wicked person runs away, even if nobody is chasing him. But good people are as bold as lions....
This wealthy man is an evil man. He lends money. But he does not charge fairly. So he obtains a big income. And the people who are in debt will suffer. (See Exodus 22:25.) But, in the end, the wealth...
HE THAT BY USURY... INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE. — See above on Proverbs 6:1. HE SHALL GATHER IT FOR HIM THAT WILL PITY THE POOR. — The “pound” is taken from him who knows not how to use it (Luke 19:24),...
מַרְבֶּ֣ה הֹ֖ונֹו בְּ נֶ֣שֶׁךְ _וְ_†_תַרְבִּ֑ית_† לְ...
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 feareth a...
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 un...
He that by interest and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather (c) it for him that will pity the poor. (c) For God will take away the wicked usurer, and give his goods to him that will...
_Poor. It seldom happens that the unjust leave their riches to their children, chap. xiii. 22., and Job xxvii. 16._...
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
HE THAT BY USURY AND UNJUST GAIN INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE,.... By biting and oppressing the poor; letting him have money at an exorbitant interest, and goods at an exorbitant price, and so increases h...
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Ver. 8. _He that by usury and unjust gain, &c._] Usury is condemned by the very heathens...
_He that by usury, &c., increaseth his substance_ Hebrew, _By usury and increase_, that is, by any kind of usury whereby the poor are oppressed, or by any unrighteous practices; _he shall gather it_,...
He that by usury and unjust gain, by interest exacted from an impoverished neighbor and by exactions in natural products, by exercising a cold and grasping avarice, INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE, growing r...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
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 by...
UNJUST GAIN: _ Heb._ by increase...
BY USURY AND UNJUST GAIN, Heb. _by usury and_ (or, _or_) increase, i.e. by any kind of usury, whereby the poor are oppressed, as is implied from the opposite clause; or by any unrighteous practices. S...
Proverbs 28:8 increases H7235 (H8688) possessions H1952 usury H5392 extortion H8636 Gathers H6908 (H8762) pity H2603
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: True religion is true wisdom, making men wise in every relation. Those who make conscience of God's law will find a security in the...
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 it w...
_He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor._ DISHONESTY A matter-of-fact Englishman, writing about the uselessness of abstract prea...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 28:2 Righteous individuals are essential for a just society. When many individuals are unjust, particularly those with power, all of society will suffer....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 28:5. JUDGMENT, or, “what is right” _(Delitzsch)_. PROVERBS 28:6. PERVERSE, etc., literally, “he who is crooked in two ways.” Delitzsch translates, “_a double-going deceive...
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 sinn...
Twenty-eight: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as a lion (Proverbs 28:1). The contrast of the wicked and the righteous. We had an awful lot of that early in the pr...
2 Samuel 12:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ezekiel 18:13; Ezekiel 18:17;...
DIVINE CONTRASTS Proverbs 28:1 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. A CONTRAS...