Proverbs 22:22

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:6 : 6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and let no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I wyl come neare to you in iudgement, and I wyll be a swyft witnesse against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelynges wages, and vexe the widowe and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, saith the Lorde of hoastes.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:
  • Job 29:12-16 : 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym. 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne. 15 I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse: 11 For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:23
    82%

    23For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.

  • Exod 23:6
    79%

    6Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite.

  • Prov 22:16
    79%

    16Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.

    12For I knowe your manyfolde transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewardes, and they oppresse the poore in the gate.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.

    4Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

  • Exod 22:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Ye shall trouble no wydowe nor fatherlesse chylde.

    23If ye shall euyll entreate them, and they crye out vnto me, I wyll surelye heare theyr crye.

  • Isa 10:2
    76%

    2Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.

  • Ezek 22:29
    76%

    29The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.

  • Prov 28:3
    76%

    3One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.

  • Prov 14:31
    76%

    31He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.

  • Deut 24:14
    76%

    14Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruaunt that is needie and poore, whether he be of thy brethre, or of the straungers that are in thy lande within thy gates:

  • Prov 31:9
    76%

    9Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

  • Exod 23:3
    75%

    3Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause.

  • Zech 7:10
    75%

    10Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and let no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart.

  • Job 20:19
    75%

    19And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.

  • Jer 22:3
    75%

    3Thus the Lord comaundeth: Kepe equitie and righteousnesse, deliuer the oppressed from the power of the violent, do not greeue nor oppresse the straunger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

  • Jas 2:6
    74%

    6But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,

  • Deut 24:17
    74%

    17Thou shalt not peruert the ryght of the strauger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a wydowes rayment to pledge:

  • Lev 19:15
    74%

    15Ye shall do no vnrighteousnesse in iudgement, thou shalt not fauour the person poore, nor honour the person mightie, but in righteousnes shalt thou iudge thy neighbour.

  • Prov 22:21
    73%

    21That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee?

  • Ezek 18:7
    73%

    7Neither hath oppressed any man, but hath restored to the detter his pledge: he that hath not spoyled any by violence, hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath clothed the naked:

  • Jer 22:16
    73%

    16Yea, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well: From whence came this, but onlye because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

  • Obad 1:13
    73%

    13Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their destruction, neither shouldest thou haue once loked on their affliction in the day of their destructio, nor haue layd handes on their substaunce in the day of their destruction:

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • Exod 22:25
    73%

    25If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be as a tiraunt vnto him, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie.

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

    7The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

  • Ezek 18:16
    73%

    16Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence: but hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment:

  • Prov 29:7
    73%

    7The righteous considereth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandyng.

  • Deut 15:7
    72%

    7If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother:

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.

    7To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Jer 7:6
    72%

    6Oppresse not the straunger, the fatherlesse, and the widowe, shed not innocent blood in this place, cleaue not to straunge gods to your owne destruction:

  • Job 22:9
    72%

    9Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.

  • Prov 21:13
    72%

    13Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.

  • Ps 140:12
    72%

    12I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.

  • Isa 3:14
    72%

    14The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the elders and princes of his people, and shall say to them: It is ye that haue burnt vp my vineyarde, the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

  • Job 36:15
    72%

    15The poore shall he deliuer out of his affliction, and rounde them in the eare when they be in trouble.

  • Eccl 5:8
    71%

    8If thou seest the poore to be oppressed, and wrongfully dealt withall, so that equitie and right of the lawe is wrested in the lande, maruayle not thou at such a thyng: for he that is higher then the hyghest regardeth, and there be hygher then they.

  • Ezek 22:7
    71%

    7In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse.

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

    10Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse:

  • Job 24:4
    71%

    4They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

    12Furthermore, if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:

  • Job 5:16
    71%

    16He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped.

  • Ps 62:10
    71%

    10O trust not in wrong dealing and spoyling: geue not your selues vnto vanitie, if riches encrease, set not your heart vpon them.

  • Deut 15:11
    71%

    11The lande shall neuer be without poore: and therfore I comaunde thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hande vnto thy brother that is needy & poore in thy lande.

  • Ps 74:21
    71%

    21O let not the simple go away ashamed: but let the afflicted & needy geue prayse vnto thy name.