8 Get as rich as you want through cheating and extortion, But eventually some friend of the poor is going to give it all back to them.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 28:8

Commentary on Proverbs 28:8

(Read Proverbs 28:8)

That which is ill got, though it may increase much, will not last long. Thus the poor are repaid, and God is glorified.