Proverbs 14:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 14:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 22:2
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Proverbs 19:17
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
1 John 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Mercy Oppression Philanthropy Pity Poor

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31)

God is here pleased to interest himself more than one would imagine in the treatment given to the poor. 1. He reckons himself affronted in the injuries that are done them. Whosoever he be that wrongs a poor man, taking advantage against him because he is poor and cannot help himself, let him know that he puts an affront upon his Maker. God made him, and gave him his being, the same that is the aut…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. reproacheth his Maker--who is the God of such, as well as of the rich (Pr 22:2; Job 31:15; and specially 1Sa 2:8; Psa 113:7).