the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 22:22
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Don't rob the poor just because you can, or exploit the needy in court.
Don't rob the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Do not abuse poor people because they are poor, and do not take away the rights of the needy in court.
Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;
Do not rob the poor because he is poor [and defenseless], Nor crush the afflicted [by legal proceedings] at the gate [where the city court is held],
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
Do thou not violence to a pore man, for he is pore; nethir defoule thou a nedi man in the yate.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
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Don't take advantage of the poor or cheat them in court.Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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:
Don't exploit the helpless, because they are helpless, and don't crush the poor in court,
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
It is easy to steal from the poor, but don't do it. And don't take advantage of them in court.
Rob not the weak, because he is weak, neither crush the poor in the gate;
Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate.
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush those who suffer at the gate.
Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.
Do not oppress the poor because he is poor; neither afflict the needy in the gate.
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Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can; don't take advantage of those who stand helpless in court.Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;
Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:
Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonour the helpless man in the gates.
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor,and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;
Rob not the poor because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted in the gate.
Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment:
1 Don't walk on the poor just because they're poor, and don't use your position to crush the weak, Because God will come to their defense; the life you took, he'll take from you and give back to them.
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor crush the needy at the gate;
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Or crush the afflicted at the gate;
Do not rob the poor because he is poor,And do not crush the afflicted at the gate;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Rob: Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, Ezekiel 22:29
oppress: Proverbs 22:16, Exodus 23:6, Job 29:12-16, Job 31:16, Job 31:21, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5
in the gate: That is, in the court of justice, which, as we have already seen, was held at the gates of cities in the East.
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:9 - and I have Exodus 21:26 - General Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Leviticus 19:13 - shalt not Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Job 20:19 - Because Job 27:13 - the heritage Job 36:6 - giveth Psalms 12:5 - oppression Psalms 35:10 - which Psalms 103:6 - executeth Psalms 109:31 - to save Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 3:31 - choose Proverbs 10:15 - the destruction Proverbs 14:31 - that oppresseth Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Proverbs 22:7 - rich Proverbs 24:7 - openeth Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Lamentations 3:35 - turn Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 22:7 - dealt Amos 4:1 - which oppress Amos 5:12 - in the 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,.... And cannot help himself; cannot go to law with him that has injured him, and defend his own cause; which the other knowing, is the more emboldened to spoil and defraud him, which is an aggravation of his sin: or, "for he is poor" g; to rob any man is an evil and an injurious thing; but to rob the poor is cruel and barbarous; rather something should be given them, and not anything taken from them: or, "though he is poor" h; let not that be an inducement to injure him, but the contrary;
neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; or "the poor" i; the same as before, only a different word used: when he comes into a court of judicature, which was usually held in the gates of a city, Ruth 4:1; and applies for redress of any grievance, do not crush him in the gate, or oppress him in judgment; nor wrest his cause, and do him wrong; but let him have justice done him, though poor. Some understand this of using the poor ill, when they come to their gates to beg; which sense is favoured by the Septuagint version; but the former is best. One might have expected, after such a preface or introduction as in the preceding verses, that something of more importance, something more spiritual and evangelical, would have followed: this shows the great regard the Lord has to the poor, and how much they are on his mind, and how near they lie to his heart; especially the poor of the flock, worried and spoiled by antichrist; see Zechariah 11:7.
g ×× ×× ××× "nam tenuis est", so some in Mercerus. h "Etsi"; so some in Mercerus; "quamvis", Lutherus. i ×¢× × "inopem", Schtultens, so Cocceius; "pauperem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
i. e., âDo not be tempted by the helplessness of the poor man to do him wrong:â some prefer, âRefrain from doing him wrong through pity for his helplessness.â
The gate - The place where the rulers of the city sit in judgment. The words point to the special form of oppression of which unjust judges are the instruments.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 22:22. Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate — In judgment let the poor have a fair hearing; and let him not be borne down because he is poor. The reader has often seen that courts of justice were held at the gates of cities in the East.
