«خُدُوا مِنْ فَقْرُهُمْ وِحُطُّوا عَلَى غْنَاكُمْ»

The saying mocks a rich person who strips the poor of the little they hold in order to swell an already ample fortune. Its ironic command imitates the exploiter's voice to condemn that greed, not to recommend it; 'their poverty' stands for the scant means of those who have little.

At a broader level it exposes an unfair economy in which scarcity on one side feeds abundance on the other. The poor man's meager means become raw material for the wealthy, so the gap between them widens rather than narrows.

Use it as a pointed remark when someone already well off squeezes those with less, such as a landlord, employer, or wealthy relative. It condemns exploitation and the imbalance of taking from the needy to enlarge comfortable fortunes.