Proverbs 21:13

There are people who refuse to listen when poor people cry out for help; but some day they themselves will cry out for help, and no one will hear them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

In Context

12God, the one who is completely righteous, knows what happens inside the houses of wicked people, and he will cause those people to be completely ruined/destroyed.

14When someone is angry with you, if you secretly give him a gift, he will stop being angry.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1Later, many of the men and their wives protested loudly about what some of the other Jews were doing.

Psalms 18:41They called out for someone to help them, but no one saved them.

Proverbs 1:28Wisdom also says, “When foolish people call to me to help them, I will not answer them. They will search for me diligently/everywhere, but they will not find me.

Isaiah 1:15So, when you lift up your hands when you pray to me, I will not even look at you. Even if you pray to me very frequently, I will not listen to you, because it is as though your hands are covered with the blood of people whom you have killed.

Jeremiah 34:16But now you have disregarded what you solemnly promised, and you have shown contempt for what I [MTY] said by taking back the women and men whom you had freed and said they could live wherever they wanted to. Now you have forced them to be your slaves again.

Matthew 6:14“ Forgive the people who sin against you, because, if you forgive other people, God, your Father who is in heaven, will forgive your sins.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:13

12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. 1. As we read this verse, it shows why good men, when they come to understand things aright, will not envy the prosperity of evil-doers. When they see the house of the wicked, how full it is perhaps of all the good things of this life, they are tempted to envy; but when they wisely consider it, when they look upon it with an eye of faith, when they see God overthrowing the wicked for their… Read the whole commentary →

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