箴言 28:8

Chinese Union (Simplified)

人 以 厚 利 加 增 财 物 ， 是 给 那 怜 悯 穷 人 者 积 蓄 的 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
凡是藉著高息厚利增加自己財富的，就是為那恩待窮人的人積蓄。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that by: Proverbs 13:22, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Ecclesiastes 2:26

unjust gain: Heb. by increase, Leviticus 25:36, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:17

pity: Proverbs 19:7, 2 Samuel 12:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:25 - General Leviticus 11:34 - General Leviticus 25:14 - General Esther 8:1 - give the house Job 30:25 - was Proverbs 11:24 - that scattereth Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Proverbs 19:17 - that hath Proverbs 20:21 - but Isaiah 23:18 - for them Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 18:7 - hath given Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Luke 12:20 - then 1 Peter 3:8 - pitiful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,.... By biting and oppressing the poor; letting him have money at an exorbitant interest, and goods at an exorbitant price, and so increases his substance in this scandalous manner; hence usury is in Leviticus 25:36, called "increase", and by the Greeks τοκος, a "birth", because money is the birth of money, as Aristotle e observes; and so by the Latins "foenus", as if it was "foetus" f, "a birth". The word for usury here signifies biting; and so usury, with classical writers g, is said to bite; and while it increases the substance of the usurer, it lessens and devours that of others;

he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor; not for himself, nor for his posterity; but for such, though not intentionally but eventually, as will make a good use of it, and distribute it to the necessities of the poor. The meaning is, that things should be so overruled by the providence of God, that what such an avaricious man gets in his dishonest way should not be enjoyed by him or his; but should be taken out of his hands, and put into the hands of another, that will do good with it, by showing mercy to the poor; see

Job 27:16.

e Politic. l. 1. c. 10. f A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 16. c. 12. g Plauti Pseudolos, Act. 4. Sc. 7. v. 23, 24. "Habet argentum jam admordere hune mihi lubet", Lucan. l. 1. v. 131. "Vorax usura."

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unjust gain - Omit “unjust:” “usury and gain” make up the notion of “gain derived from usury.” Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, after a time they pass into hands that know how to use them better.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 28:8. He that by usury - increaseth his substance — By taking unlawful interest for his money; lending to a man in great distress, money, for the use of which he requires an exorbitant sum. O that the names of all those unfeeling, hard-hearted, consummate villains in the nation, who thus take advantage of their neighbour's necessities to enrich themselves, were published at every market cross; and then the delinquents all sent to their brother savages in New Zealand. It would be a happy riddance to the country.