Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
6An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.
8Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Jeremiah 22:15“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with 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 →