Proverbs Chapter 29 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 29:7

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know `it'.
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BBE Proverbs 29:7

The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
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DARBY Proverbs 29:7

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.
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KJV Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
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WBT Proverbs 29:7


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WEB Proverbs 29:7

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
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YLT Proverbs 29:7

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Considereth the cause; recognizes the claims, and, as the word din implies, supports them at the seat of judgment (comp. Job 29:12, 16; Psalm 82:3, etc.). Septuagint, "A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor." The wicked regardeth not to know it. This is a clumsy translation; it means, pays no attention so as to become fully acquainted with its details and bearings. But the words signify rather, as in the Revised Version margin, "understandeth not knowledge" (Proverbs 19:25; Proverbs 28:5), has no knowledge which would lead him to enter into the poor man's case, and to sympathize with him in his distress; the claims of the feeble to recognition and relief at his hands are utterly unknown and disregarded. He can daily look on Lazarus at his gate, and find no call for his pity and charity; he can see the wounded traveller in the road, and pass by on the other side. The LXX. offers two translations of the latter clause, reading the second time דשׁ instead of רשׁע, and thereby not improving the sense: "But the ungodly understand. eth not knowledge, and the poor man hath not an understanding mind."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) The wicked regardeth not to know it.--Literally, understandeth not knowledge; he does not know nor care to know anything about his poorer neighbour's affairs, so as to be able to help him. He cares as little about him as did Dives about Lazarus, though he saw him each time he went out of his own door.