Proverbs 29:7
The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.
Darby Translation
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 the righteous shall sing and rejoice.
8Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Job 31:13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who crieth, and the afflicted, who hath no helper;
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? 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 →