Proverbs 23:11
For their Redeemer [is] strong, || He pleads their cause with you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
In Context
10Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
12Bring your heart to instruction, || And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
Cross References
Exodus 22:22You do not afflict any widow or orphan;
Job 19:25That—I have known my Redeemer, || The Living and the Last, || For He raises the dust.
Psalms 68:6God—causing the lonely to dwell at home, || Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, || Only—the stubborn have inhabited a dry place.
Jeremiah 50:33Thus said YHWH of Hosts: The sons of Israel are oppressed, || And the sons of Judah together, || And all their captors have kept hold on them, || They have refused to send them away.
Jeremiah 51:36Therefore, thus said YHWH: Behold, I am pleading your cause, || And I have avenged your vengeance, || And dried up her sea, and made her fountains dry.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:11-12
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them ( Hos. xiv. 3 ) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer, their Goël, their near kinsman, that will take their part and stand up for them with jealousy, as taking himself affronted in the injuries done to them. As their Redeemer he will plead… Read the whole commentary →