Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops. New Living Translation A poor person who oppresses the poor is like a pounding rain that destroys the crops. English Standard Version A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food. Berean Standard Bible A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. King James Bible A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. New King James Version A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no food. New American Standard Bible A poor man who oppresses the helpless Is like a driving rain which leaves no food. NASB 1995 A poor man who oppresses the lowly Is like a driving rain which leaves no food. NASB 1977 A poor man who oppresses the lowly Is like a driving rain which leaves no food. Legacy Standard Bible A poor man who oppresses the lowly Is a driving rain which leaves no food. Amplified Bible A poor man who oppresses and exploits the lowly Is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food. Christian Standard Bible A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. Holman Christian Standard Bible A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. American Standard Version A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. Contemporary English Version When someone poor takes over and mistreats the poor, it's like a heavy rain destroying the crops. English Revised Version A needy man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. GOD'S WORD® Translation A poor person who oppresses poorer people is like a driving rain that leaves no food. Good News Translation Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops. International Standard Version A poor man who oppresses the weak is like a rainstorm that destroys all the crops. Majority Standard Bible A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. NET Bible A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food. New Heart English Bible A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops. Webster's Bible Translation A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. World English Bible A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionA man—poor and oppressing the weak, "" [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread. Young's Literal Translation A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, Is a sweeping rain, and there is no bread. Smith's Literal Translation A poor man oppressing the poor, a sweeping rain and no bread. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleA poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine. Catholic Public Domain Version A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine. New American Bible One who is poor and extorts from the lowly is a devastating rain that leaves no food. New Revised Standard Version A ruler who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleA poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which is of no benefit. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated A poor man that harms the poor is like a beating rain with no benefit in it. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917A poor man that oppresseth the weak Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. Brenton Septuagint Translation A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Boldness of the Righteous…2A land in rebellion has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order. 3A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. 4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.… Cross References James 2:6-7 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? / Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called? Isaiah 3:14-15 The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses. / Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts. Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice. Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.” Micah 2:2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. Luke 20:47 They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.” Job 24:2-4 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. / They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. / They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. Nehemiah 5:1-5 About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. / Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” / Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” ... Exodus 22:25-27 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. / If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, / because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. Deuteronomy 24:14-15 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. / You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. Leviticus 25:35-37 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. / Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit. Psalm 10:2 In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise. Treasury of Scripture A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food. poor man Matthew 18:28-30 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest… Jump to Previous Beating Bread Causing Crops Cruel Destruction Driving Food Helpless Leaves Needy Oppresses Oppresseth Oppressing Poor Rain Ruler Sweeping Violent Weak WealthJump to Next Beating Bread Causing Crops Cruel Destruction Driving Food Helpless Leaves Needy Oppresses Oppresseth Oppressing Poor Rain Ruler Sweeping Violent Weak WealthProverbs 28 1. general observations of impiety and integrityA poor man The Hebrew word for "poor" here is "רָשׁ" (rash), which refers to someone who is destitute or lacking in material wealth. In the context of ancient Israel, poverty was often seen as a condition that could lead to humility and reliance on God. However, this verse presents a paradox: a poor man, who might be expected to empathize with the plight of others in similar circumstances, instead becomes an oppressor. This highlights the complexity of human nature and the potential for sin regardless of one's economic status. who oppresses the lowly is like a driving rain that leaves no food Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.--That sweeps away grain and soil, instead of bringing plenty with it. Verse 3. - A poor man that oppresseth the poor. The words rendered "poor" are different. The former is rash, "needy," the latter dal, "feeble" (see on Proverbs 10:15). Delitzsch notes that, in accordance with the accents in the Masoretic text, we should translate, "A poor man and an oppressor of the lowly - a sweeping rain without bringing bread," which would mean that a tyrant who oppresses the lowly bears the same relation to the poor that a devastating rain does to those whom it deprives of their food. But it is pretty certain that "the poor" and "the oppressor" designate the same person (though the vocalization is against it); hence the gnome refers to a usurper who, rising to power from poor estate, makes the very worst and most tyrannical ruler. Such a one has learned nothing from his former condition but callous indifference, and now seeks to exercise on others that power which once galled him. Thus among schoolboys it is found that the greatest bully is one who has himself been bullied; and needy revolutionists make the most rapacious and iniquitous demagogues. Of such tyrants the prophets complain (see Isaiah 5:8, etc.; Micah 2:2). Wordsworth refers, as an illustration, to Catiline and his fellow conspirators, who were moved by selfish interests to overthrow the commonwealth. Many modern commentators (e.g., Hitzig, Delitzsch, Nowack), in view of the present text, regarding the combination נבר רשׁ, and noting that elsewhere the oppressor and the poor are always introduced in opposition (comp. Proverbs 29:13), read רלֺאשׁ, or consider רשׁ as equivalent to it - rosh, "the head," in the signification of "master," "ruler." The gnome thus becomes concinnous, the ruler who ought to benefit his dependents, but injures them, corresponding to the rain which, instead of fertilizing, devastates the crops. The LXX. had a different reading, as it readers, "A bold man in his impieties (ἀνδρεῖος ἐν ἀσεβείαις) calumniates the poor." Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food; literally, and not bread. A violent storm coming at seed time and washing away soil and seed, or happening at harvest time and destroying the ripe corn. Vulgate, Similis est imbri vehementi, in quo paratur fames. Ewald supposes that such proverbs as these and the following belong to the time of Jeroboam II, when the prosperity of the people induced luxury and arrogance, and was accompanied with much moral evil, oppression, and perversion of justice ('Hist. of Israel,' 3:126, Eng. transl.). The Bengalee compares the relation of the rich oppressor to the poor, not with the rainstorm, but with that of the carving knife to the pumpkin.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew A destituteרָ֭שׁ (rāš) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 7326: To be in want or poor leader גֶּ֣בֶר (ge·ḇer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply who oppresses וְעֹשֵׁ֣ק (wə·‘ō·šêq) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow the poor דַּלִּ֑ים (dal·lîm) Adjective - masculine plural construct Strong's 1800: Dangling, weak, thin is like a driving סֹ֝חֵ֗ף (sō·ḥêp̄) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5502: To scrape off rain מָטָ֥ר (mā·ṭār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4306: Rain that leaves no וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle food. לָֽחֶם׃ (lā·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain Links Proverbs 28:3 NIVProverbs 28:3 NLT Proverbs 28:3 ESV Proverbs 28:3 NASB Proverbs 28:3 KJV Proverbs 28:3 BibleApps.com Proverbs 28:3 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 28:3 Chinese Bible Proverbs 28:3 French Bible Proverbs 28:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 28:3 A needy man who oppresses the poor (Prov. 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