Proverbs 29:7
The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.
8Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord the king, I pray, regard this naughty man Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
Job 31:13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
Psalms 31:7Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then 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 →