Proverbs 22:22 (BSB)

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:22-23: After this solemn preface, one would have expected something new and surprising; but no; here is a plain and common, but very needful caution against the barbarous and inhuman practices of oppressing poor people. Observe, I. The sin itself, and that is robbing the poor and making them poorer, taking from those that have but little to lose and so leaving them nothing.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:22: Rob not the poor, because he is poor,.... And cannot help himself; cannot go to law with him that has injured him, and defend his own cause; which the other knowing, is the more emboldened to spoil and defraud him, which is an aggravation of his sin: or, "for he is poor" (g); to rob any man is an evil and an injurious thing; but...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:22: Here follow ten precepts of two verses each. Though men fail to defend the poor, God will (Pro 17:5; Psa 12:5). in the gate--place of public gathering (Job 5:4; Psa 69:12).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:22-23: Pro 22:22-23 After these ten lines of preliminary exhortation, there now begins the collection of the “Words of the Wise” thus introduced. A tetrastich which, in its contents, connects itself with the last proverb of the Solomonic collection, Pro 22:16, forms the commencement of this collection: 22 Rob not the lowly because he is lowly; And oppress not the humble in the gate.