Proverbs 29:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Proverbs 29:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Psalms 41:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …
Jeremiah 22:15-17
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 7)

It is a pity but that every one who sues sub formâ pauperis — as a pauper, should have an honest cause (they are of all others inexcusable if they have not), because the scripture has so well provided that it should have a fair hearing, and that the judge himself should be of counsel, as for the prisoner, so for the pauper. 1. It is here made the character of a righteous judge that he considers th…

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

(vv. 7)

7. considereth--literally, “knows,” as Psa 1:6. the cause--that is, in courts of justice (compare Pr 29:14). The voluntary neglect of it by the wicked (Pr 28:27) occasions oppression.