Proverbs 29:13 (BSB)

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:13: This shows how wisely the great God serves the designs of his providence by persons of very different tempers, capacities, and conditions in the world, even, 1. By those that are contrary the one to the other. Some are poor and forced to borrow; others are rich, have a great deal of the mammon of unrighteousness (deceitful riches they are called), and they are creditors...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:13: The poor and the deceitful man meet together,.... Or "the usurer" (q); who by usury, by fraud and deception, is possessed of the mammon of unrighteousness, and is become rich; he and the poor man meet together; and so the sense is the same as in Pro 22:2; See Gill on Pro 22:2; the Lord lighteneth both their eyes; with the light of natural life...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:13: (Compare Pro 22:2). deceitful man--literally, "man of vexations," an exactor. the Lord . . . their eyes--sustains their lives (Sa1 14:27; Psa 13:3); that is, both depend on Him, and He will do justice.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:13: Pro 29:13 13 The poor man and the usurer meet together - Jahve lighteneth the eyes of both. A variation of Pro 22:2, according to which the proverb is to be understood in both of its parts. That אישׁ תּככים is the contrast of רשׁ, is rightly supposed in Temura 16b; but Rashi, who brings out here a man of moderate learning, and Saadia, a...