Proverbs 28:8 Turn about is . . .

He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

 Solomon is hearkening back to the Law given to Moses, and then to the Hebrew people. Here is one example of God's instructions about loaning money to someone:

And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you; then you shall help him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.  Leviticus 25:35

So the Holy Spirit is noting for us in this verse, that if someone oppresses another, by charging huge and exorbitant interest rates for a loan, or helping someone out of a tight spot, the increase may very well be taken from him. And it would be poetic justice if those ill gotten gains were used to relieve others who are poor and needy, would it not?

Here is the heart of the principle:  If a Christian is one of those who would make a dishonest profit and charge exorbitant interest God might well take his money and give it to someone who would show mercy on the poor. Because we are supposed to be merciful, right?

Deuteronomy 15:7, 11
If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.

Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Even in the secular world, we have an example of this principle, in the old saying, "Turn about is fair play." Perhaps we should try to remember that, and always treat others as we'd want to be treated . . . whether it's a brother or sister who is in a tight spot and needs financial help, or a person who just needs some of our time. Time is such a precious commodity in this age -- but investing our time to listen and encourage someone whose heart is aching is truly showing the mercy that we'd want to receive, if we were in their shoes.

Never criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.  (American Indian proverb)

Lord, help me to empathize and understand those around me who need my time and encouragement.

Prov 21:12-13 It's truly golden, that rule

Pro 21:12  The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Pro 21:13  Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

After the terrible devastation in Haiti, I read a sermon that was calling for people to aid the victims there. One sentence stuck with me, " Instead of blaming God or defending God in the midst of this, our first duty is to bow before God, to pray for those who suffer, to listen to God and to respond obediently with both physical and spiritual aid."  I thought that was a very appropriate response.
As terrible as it may seem, I heard a few people who solemnly intoned that it was wasteful to send aid to the area for one reason or another. These people reminded me of the religious leaders in Jesus' day, who spent their time arguing about whose sin caused a man's blindness -- his parents' sin, or his own --- instead of doing something to help the man!!
We all know that we need to be sensitive to the truly poor, but at the same time we do not need to be ignorant of the devil’s strategies.  We have a responsibility to be good stewards of what God has placed into our hands.
Don't you think these verses go together nicely with this verse in Proverbs . . .

¹⁶ By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? ¹⁸ Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. I John 3:16-18

And this passage, too:

¹⁵  If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶  and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good^[a] is that? James 2:15-16

And finally this one . . . the golden one:

And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise. Luke 6:31

I don't think there's any more that I can say, that these verses have not said.