Proverbs 29:7
Righteous/Good people know that poor people should be treated fairly/justly, but wicked people ◄are not concerned about/do not pay attention to► those matters at all.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Please do not pay attention to [IDM] what this worthless man Nabal has said. His name means ‘fool’, and he surely is a foolish man. But I, who am willing to be your servant, did not see the messengers whom you sent to him.
Job 31:13“And, if it were true that I have ever refused to listen to one of my male or female servants when they complained to me about something,
Psalms 31:7I will be very glad [DOU] because you faithfully love me. You see me when I have been afflicted, and you have known when I have had troubles.
Psalms 72:12They will rescue poor people when they ◄cry out/plead► for help, and help those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.
Proverbs 31:8Speak [MTY] to defend people who are unable to defend themselves; speak to encourage others to do what is right for those who are helpless.
Jeremiah 22:15But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
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 →