John Trapp on Nehemiah 5:3

Verſe 3. We have morgaged our Lands, Vineyards, &c.] Lands they had, but were little the better for them. Husbandry they had neglected to give attendance upon buildings: neither were they able to ſtock and ſtore their grounds, and ſo are forced to part with them at an under-rate. This is many a poor mans caſe amongſt us, who yet are little pitied, or relieved,Jam. 2.15, 16 unleſſe it be with a little mouth-mercy, as in S. James his dayes, chap. 2.15, 16. Oppreſſours will be but as Friends at a ſneeze: the moſt you can get of them is, God bleſſe you: like they are (many of them) to Darius; who prayed God to help Daniel, but ſent him to the Lions den.