Proverbs 29:7

Modern English Version

The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked do not understand such knowledge.

Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case that I did not know.

Job 31:13

“If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant when they complained against me,

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, for You have seen my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the day of trouble.

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry out, but will not be heard.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, if a man is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, watching yourselves, lest you also be tempted.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please do not let my lord set his heart against this worthless man, against 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.