Proverbs 23:11
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
In Context
10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
Cross References
Exodus 22:22'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;
Job 19:25That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Psalms 68:6God — causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only — the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
Jeremiah 50:33Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away.
Jeremiah 51:36Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:11-12
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them ( Hos. xiv. 3 ) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer, their Goël, their near kinsman, that will take their part and stand up for them with jealousy, as taking himself affronted in the injuries done to them. As their Redeemer he will plead… Read the whole commentary →