“A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 28 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.