I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
Proverbs 29:7 - Catholic Public Domain Version The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: But the wicked regardeth not to know it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it. Common English Bible The righteous know the rights of the poor, but the wicked don’t understand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge. English Standard Version 2016 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. |
I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,
if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate;
You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
Whoever blocks his ears to the outcry of the poor shall also cry out himself, and he will not be heeded.
They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.
They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted.
Let not my lord, the king, I beseech you, set his heart upon this iniquitous man, Nabal. For in accord with his name, he is senseless, and foolishness is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you had sent.