Proverbs 29:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

Proverbs 29:7 Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalm 72:12

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Be´li-al, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.