Proverbs 28:3
What meaning of the proverbs 28:3 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 28:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food."
What does Proverbs 28:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food."
Verse Proverbs 28:3. _A POOR MAN THAT OPPRESSETH THE POOR_] Our Lord illustrates this proverb most beautifully, by the parable of the _two debtors_, Matthew 18:23, c. One owed _ten thousand talents_,...
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 in...
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 ar...
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; Proverbs 3:22. Hebrew....
_a poor man_ Better, with R.V., A NEEDY MAN, the Hebrew word being different from that rendered _poor_immediately after. The proverb has commonly been held to refer to _official_oppression. "A man in...
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...
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 RAIN, WHICH LEA...
28:3 man (a-3) _ Geber_ . so ver 21. see Job 3:3 . 'Poor,' in vers. 3,6,27, as ch. 22.2. helpless (b-7) _ 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....
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. V2 A country of evil people has many ru...
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. IS...
גֶּ֣בֶר רָ֭שׁ וְ עֹשֵׁ֣ק דַּלִּ֑ים מָטָ֥ר סֹ֝חֵ֗ף וְ אֵ֣ין לָֽחֶם׃...
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...
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 follow...
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 so...
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), makes cle...
_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 le...
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...
WHICH LEAVETH NO FOOD: _ Heb._ without food...
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 whic...
Proverbs 28:3 poor H7326 (H8802) man H1397 oppresses H6231 (H8802) poor H1800 driving H5502 (H8802) rain H4306 food H3899 poor man - Matthew 18:28-30 which leaveth no food - Heb. without food...
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...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images =...
_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 find i...
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...
Matthew 18:28...
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 CONTRA...
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....