Proverbs 29:7
The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor: the wicked hath not understanding to know it.
Revised Version 1895
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 evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
8Scornful men set a city in a flame: but wise men turn away wrath.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: hut I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Job 31:13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast seen my affliction; thou hast known my soul in adversities:
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; and the poor, that hath no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? 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 →