Proverbs 28:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ A poor person who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ A poor man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food [plundering them of their last morsels]. [Matt. 18:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Common English Bible

³ Poor people who oppress the needy are rain that washes away food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

Proverbs 28:3 Cross References

Numbers 10:9

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.