John Trapp on Proverbs 22:7

Verſ. 7. The rich ruleth over the poor] And that with rigour, as Pharaoh did over Iſrael; as thoſe imperious Mammoniſts in St. James his time that oppreſſed and ſubjugated their pooreſt brethren, trampling upon them with the feet of intolerable inſolency and cruelty, Jam. 2.6. Yet now our fleſh is as the fleſh of our brethren, our children as their children, ſaid thoſe poor Jews in Nehemiah, who pleads their cauſe moſt effectually, Chap. 5.7, 8, 9. &c. Ubi quot verba, tot tela, quae nimirum animam divitum percellant, fodicent & lancinent, as one ſaith in another caſe; hee ſets upon them with irreſiſtible Rhetorick, and makes them reſtore (which yet rich oppreſſors are very hardly drawn to do.) Every grain of riches hath a vermin of pride and ambition in it, 1 Tim. 6.17. See the Note there. Mens blood riſeth together with their good, and they think that every thing muſt bee as they would have it. But eſpecially if they have drawn the poor into their nets, Pſal. 10.9. that is, into their bonds, debts, morgages, as Chryſoſtome expounds it, then they not onely rob, but raviſh them; to their cruelty they joyn diſhoneſty, there is neither equity or mercy to bee had at their hands.