Verse 7

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 > Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all who are left desolate. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
  • Job 31:13 : 13 "If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:29-31 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully. 30 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Mic 3:1-4 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
  • 1 Sam 25:9-9 : 9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ps 31:7 : 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.