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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_,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE
2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period
described in 2K15....
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The addition of a single Hebrew letter gives 'wicked' instead of poor....
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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...
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גֶּ֣בֶר רָ֭שׁ וְ עֹשֵׁ֣ק דַּלִּ֑ים
מָטָ֥ר סֹ֝
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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A poor man that oppresseth the poor, an upstart who has enriched
himself at the expense of his subjects, IS LIKE A SWEEPING RAIN, a
heavy, driving shower, WHICH LEAVETH NO FOOD, the flood either
drown...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
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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...
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WHICH LEAVETH NO FOOD:
_ Heb._ without food...
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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...
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Proverbs 28:3 poor H7326 (H8802) man H1397 oppresses H6231 (H8802)
poor H1800 driving H5502 (H8802) rain...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 18:28...
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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...
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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....