Proverbs 29:7
A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.
8Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let 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.
Job 31:13If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving kindness, for thou have seen my affliction. Thou have known my soul in adversities,
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Jeremiah 22:15Shall thou reign, because thou strive to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:7
6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Here is, 1. The peril of a sinful way. There is not only a punishment at the end of it, but a snare in it. One sin is a temptation to another, and there are troubles which, as a snare, come suddenly upon evil men in the midst of their transgressions; nay, their transgression itself often involves them in vexations; their sin is their punishment, and they are holden in the cords of their own iniquity, ch. v. 22 . 2. The… Read the whole commentary →