Proverbs 29:7

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that 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, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: For thou hast seen my affliction; Thou hast known my soul in adversities:

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

Psalm 72:12

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

Proverbs 21:13

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

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should 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 wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1 Samuel 25:25

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