Note the paradox. The poor man, of whom one might expect roughness, supplicates; the rich, well nurtured, from whom one might look for courtesy, an…

The rich answers roughly.— A warning against the hardening effect of riches.

The poor uses entreaties
Or "supplications" ^F1 ; he is an humble supplicant to others for favours he asks…

Poverty tells people they must not order or demand. And at the throne of God's grace, we are all poor, and must use entreaties.