Exodus 23:3

and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

In Context

2You are not after many to [do] evil, nor do you testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;

4When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you certainly turn it back to him;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:17you do not discern faces in judgment; you hear the little as well as the great; you are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God’s, and the thing which is too hard for you, you bring near to me, and I have heard it.

Psalms 82:3Judge the weak and fatherless, || Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.

Proverbs 22:22Do not rob the poor because he [is] poor, || And do not bruise the afflicted in the gate.

Amos 5:12For I have known—many [are] your transgressions, || And mighty your sins, || Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, || And you turned aside the needy in the gate.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:2-10

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help… Read the whole commentary →

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