I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the case which I did not know.
Proverbs 29:7 - The Scriptures 2009 The righteous knows the plea of the poor, The wrong does not understand such knowledge. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: But the wicked regardeth not to know it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The [consistently] righteous man knows and cares for the rights of the poor, but the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge. [Job 29:16; 31:13; Ps. 41:1.] American Standard Version (1901) The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it. Common English Bible The righteous know the rights of the poor, but the wicked don’t understand. Catholic Public Domain Version The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge. |
I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the case which I did not know.
If I have refused the plea of my male servant or my female servant when they complained against me,
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;
I exult and rejoice in Your loving-commitment, For You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses of my life,
Blessed is he who considers the poor; יהוה does deliver him in a day of evil.
For He delivers the needy when he cries, And the poor, who has no helper.
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard.
They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.
“They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.
Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too.
“Please, let not my master regard this man of Beliya‛al, Naḇal. For as his name is, so is he: Naḇal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your female servant, did not see the young men of my master whom you sent.