Proverbs 29:7

The Scriptures 1998

The righteous knows the plea of the poor, The wrong does not understand such knowledge.

Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the case which I did not know.

Job 31:13

If I have refused the plea of my male servant or my female servant when they complained against me,

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 31:7

I exult and rejoice in Your kindness, For You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses of my life,

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor; יהוה  does deliver him in a day of evil.

Psalm 72:12

For He delivers the needy when he cries, And the poor, who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard.

Jeremiah 5:28

‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

Ezekiel 22:7

“They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too.

1 Samuel 25:25

“Please, let not my master regard this man of Beliyaʽ