Proverbs 22:22 Cross References - NHEB

²² Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;

⁶ "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, ¹³ the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.

¹⁶ "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

¹⁶ Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

¹⁰ Do not move the ancient boundary stone. Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless: ¹¹ for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

¹⁰ Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

⁵ I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.