Proverbs 29:7
The righteous doth acknowledge the plea of the poor, but, the lawless, regardeth not knowledge.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
In Context
8Men given to mockery, inflame a city,—but, wise men, turn away anger.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let it not be, I pray thee, that my lord regard this abandoned man—Nabal [="Base"]; For, as his name is, so, is he. Nabal, is his name, and, baseness, is with him,—But, I, thy handmaid, saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Job 31:13If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,
Psalms 31:7I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness,—In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life;
Psalms 72:12Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because, thou, art eager to excel in cedar? Thy father, did he not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, And, 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 →