Proverbs 29:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: But the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ 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)

⁷ The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

Common English Bible

⁷ The righteous know the rights of the poor, but the wicked don’t understand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge.

Proverbs 29:7 Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

Job 31:13

“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

Psalm 31:7

I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities,

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor! The Lord delivers him in the day of trouble;

Psalm 72:12

For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord regard this ill-natured fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I your handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.