Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
Updated King James Version
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 does sing and rejoice.
8Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I yours handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom you did 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 your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Jeremiah 22:15Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, 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 →