Proverbs 29:7
The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
6In the transgression of an euill man is his snare: but the righteous doeth sing and reioyce.
8Scornefull men bring a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.
Job 31:13If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me,
Psalms 31:7I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reigne, because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper, when he executed iudgement and iustice?
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 →