Proverbs 29:7

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Summary

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Considereth

Galatians 6:1

But

General references

Matthew 24:39

Bible References

Considereth

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

But

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

General references

And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.