A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
NMVThe ransom of a man’s life [are] his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain).
OJBThe riches of an ish is kofer (ransom) for his nefesh (life), but the poor heareth no threat.
T4TRich people are able to pay people who want to kill them, with the result that they will be protected, not killed, but poor people do not have to worry about that because no one threatens to kill them.