Proverbs 21:13

“Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, etc.] For want of bread; or, “of the weak”, as the Septuagint and other versions; for want of help and protection, when in the greatest distress; and, with the most pressing importunity, entreats his assistance, and yet refuses to hear him out: or, if he does, will not relieve him, which is all one as if he heard him not, or denied him a hearing; he also shall cry himself; the Targum and Syriac version add, “unto God”. The sense is, that even such an one shall be brought into the like distressed circumstances, when he shall make application to God, and to his fellow creatures, for relief and assistance: but shall not be heard; a deaf ear will…”

“The principles of retribution, often taught (compare Psa 18:26; Mat 7:1-12).”

“stoppeth: Psa 58:4; Zac 7:11; Act 7:57 at: Pro 28:27; Deu 15:7-11; Neh 5:1-5, Neh 5:13; Isa 1:15-17, Isa 58:6-9; Jer 34:16, Jer 34:17; Zac 7:9-13; Mat 6:14, Mat 7:2, Mat 18:30-35, Mat 25:41-46; Jam 2:13-16 cry himself: Pro 1:28; Psa 18:41; Luk 13:25 Proverbs 21:14”

“13 He that stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor he also calls and is not heard. Only the merciful find mercy, Mat 5:7; the unmerciful rich man, who has no ear for the cry of the דל, i.e., of him who is without support and means of subsistence, thus of one who is needing support, will also remain unheard when he himself, in the time of need, calls upon God for help. Cf. the parable of the unmerciful servant of the merciful king, Mat 18:23. מן in מזּעקת, as Isa 23:15; Gen 4:13; Gen 27:1; no preposition of our \[German\] language \[nor English\] expresses, as Fleischer here remarks, such a fulness of meaning as this מן does, to which, after a verb of shutting up such as אטם (cf. Pro 17:28),…”