Proverbs 22:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 25:39 : 39 And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
  • Prov 23:11 : 11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
  • Ps 35:1 : 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.
  • 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
  • Hab 2:8 : 8 Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:22
    82%

    22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

  • Prov 23:11
    78%

    11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

  • Prov 21:7
    77%

    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Isa 3:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Isa 42:22
    75%

    22 But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

  • Ezek 23:46
    75%

    46 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.

  • Isa 33:1
    75%

    1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Amos 5:9
    75%

    9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • Hab 2:8
    74%

    8 Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

    4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

  • Isa 5:23
    74%

    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Jer 30:16
    74%

    16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • Ps 109:11
    74%

    11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

  • Isa 42:24
    73%

    24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Jer 5:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 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.

    29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • Ezek 22:29
    73%

    29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

  • Ps 140:12
    73%

    12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

  • Prov 31:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

    9 Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

  • Isa 17:14
    73%

    14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Job 20:19
    73%

    19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

    3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

  • Ps 94:21
    73%

    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Mic 2:2
    72%

    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Exod 22:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

    23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

    24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Job 24:9
    72%

    9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

    6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Isa 1:24
    72%

    24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Ps 35:10
    72%

    10 All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Ps 79:7
    72%

    7 For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

  • Jer 21:12
    72%

    12 O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

  • Jer 18:21
    71%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Isa 49:24
    71%

    24 Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?