Proverbs 29:7

A Conservative Version

A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.

Cross References

Job 29:16

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

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

Proverbs 21:13

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

Galatians 6:1

And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

Job 31:21

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

Job 31:13

If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Psalm 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving kindness, for thou have seen my affliction. Thou have known my soul in adversities,

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou sent.

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.