Proverbs 28:3 (BSB)

A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:3: See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing such good offices as they might do one to another, but imposing upon and over-reaching one another. Those who know by experience the miseries of poverty should be compassionate to those who suffer the like, but they are inexcusably barbarous if they be injurious to them. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:3: 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 sometimes he may and does from a rich man: or rather one that has been poor, but now become rich, and got into some place of authority and profit...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:3: A poor man, &c.--Such, in power, exact more severely, and so leave subjects bare.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:3: Pro 28:3 A proverb of a tyrant here connects itself with that of usurpers: A poor man and an oppressor of the lowly - A sweeping rain without bringing bread. Thus it is to be translated according to the accents.