Proverbs 29:13

13. Deceitful man אישׁ תככים , ( ish tekhakhim,) the man of oppression or exactions; the usurer, etc. These are all conjectural renderings of the word by different translators, showing that the word is obscure and its meaning uncertain. It occurs only in this place, though a form from the same root occurs in a few others, and is rendered “fraud, deceit.” Chap. Proverbs 14:31; Psalms 10:7; Psalms 55:11; Psalms 72:14. Meet together Encounter each other. The teaching is the same as in chap.

Proverbs 22:2. Men at opposite ends of the scale stand before God on the same footing. He made them both, and bestows his light equally upon them. They must both stand before him in judgment rich and poor, oppressor and oppressed: a consolation to the lowly well-doer, and a warning to the unrighteous exacter they are brothers. In accordance with these ideas were the laws against usury. Compare Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36-37; Deuteronomy 23:19-20; Psalms 15:5; Proverbs 28:8; Isaiah 24:2; Jeremiah 15:10; Ezekiel 18:8; Ezekiel 18:13; Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 22:12.