Proverbs 29:7
The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
6A snare will entangle the iniquitous when he sins. And the just shall praise and be glad.
8Pestilent men squander a city. Yet truly, the wise avert fury.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let 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.
Job 31:13If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,
Psalms 31:7You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
Psalms 72:12Behold, these are sinners, and, abounding in this age, they have obtained riches.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through.
Jeremiah 22:15Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be 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 →