7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …
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? …
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 t…
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