Proverbs 29:13
There is one thing that is true about both poor people and those who oppress them: Yahweh enables all of them to see.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
In Context
14If kings judge poor people fairly, they will continue to rule for a long time.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs [IDM], others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] temporarily.
Psalms 13:3Yahweh my God, look at me and answer me. Enable me to become strong again [IDM], and do not allow me to die.
Matthew 5:45Do that in order to imitate what God, your Father who is in heaven, does. He desires that you [MET] do like he does. He acts kindly to all people. For example, he causes the sun to shine equally on wicked people and on good people, and he sends rain both on righteous people and on unrighteous people.
1 Corinthians 6:10or who are thieves, or who desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or who are drunkards, or who slander others, or who are swindlers, will not enter the place where God rules.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:13
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Note, 1. It is a great sin in any, especially in rulers, to hearken to lies; for thereby they not only give a wrong judgment themselves of persons and things, according to the lies they give credit to, but they encourage others to give wrong informations. Lies will be told to those that will hearken to them; but the receiver, in this case, is as bad as the thief. 2. Those that do so will have all their servants wicked. All their servants will appear… Read the whole commentary →