Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: 1 But the wicked regardeth not to know it. 1
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
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: 1 But the righteous doth sing and rejoice. 1
8Scornful men bring a city into a snare: 1 But wise men turn away wrath. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Job 31:13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 1 When they contended with me; 1
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: 1 For thou hast considered my trouble; 1 Thou hast known my soul in adversities; 1
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; 1 The poor also, and him that hath no helper. 1
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb 1 In the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 1
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? 1 Did not thy father eat and drink, 1 And do judgment and justice, 1 And then it was well with him? 1
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 →