Proverbs 22:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²² Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Rob not the poor [being tempted by their helplessness], neither oppress the afflicted at the gate [where the city court is held], [Exod. 23:6; Job 31:16, 21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Common English Bible

²² Don’t steal from the poor, because they are poor. Don’t oppress the needy in the gate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Do not act with violence toward the pauper because he is poor. And do not weary the needy at the gate.

Proverbs 22:22 Cross References

Job 31:16

*If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Exodus 23:3

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

*You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Leviticus 19:13

*'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

Zechariah 7:10

Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me,* says the LORD of Armies.

Deuteronomy 23:16

he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.