John Trapp on Amos 8:6

Verſe 6. That we may buy the poore for ſilver &c.] Thus the poore alwayes pay for it: the modeſt and mild poore, eſpecially as ver. 4. Hence Poore and afflicted are put for one and the ſame Zeph. 3.12. and to want, and to be abaſed Philip. 4.12. they that want ſhall be ſure to be abaſed and abuſed by the wretched rich, who will ever go over the hedge where it is loweſt, and catch the poore by drawing him into the nets Pſal. 10.9. that is into their debts, bonds, and mortgages, and at length making ſuch their bondmen, by abuſe of that permiſſion Lev. 25.39. See chap. 2.3.

yea and ſell the refuſe of the wheat] Quiſquilias, the husks, more fit for pigs or poultrey; hardly mans meate, and yet held good enough for the poore:deciduum p[illegible: 3 letters] gamenta, the offall. although their fleſh was as the fleſh of their brethren, and their children, as their children Neh. 5.5. however they uſed them. How farr were theſe rich wretches from conſidering the poore as Davids bleſſed man Pſal. 41.1. and as Dr. Taylour the Martyr did; whoſe cuſtome was once in a fortnight at leaſt to go to poore mens houſes, look into their cupbords, ſee how they fared, and what they lacked:Act. & Mon. that he might either make or procure them a ſupply from ſuch as were better able?