Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 5:16

16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people .

(i. e.) The Egyptian task-masters, who by sending us abroad to gather straw hinder us from doing the work which they require: And so they are both unjust and unreasonable. They charge the task-masters, not the King, either in civility and duty casting his fault upon the instruments: or because they did not know or at best not believe that this was the Kings act. Others. Thy people, i. e. the Egyptians, make themselves guilty, and will bring the vengeance of God upon them for their cruelty.