Proverbs 22:23 (BSB)

for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:23

• 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 22:23: For the Lord will plead their cause,.... If counsellors at the bar will not, he will; if judges on the bench will not do them justice, he will; he will judge the poor of the people; he will plead their cause, and plead it thoroughly, till he has brought forth judgment unto victory: woe to the man against whom Jehovah pleads; happy the poor on...
• 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.