Amsal 22:22

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Janganlah merampasi orang lemah, karena ia lemah, dan janganlah menginjak-injak orang yang berkesusahan di pintu gerbang.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Janganlah merampasi orang lemah, karena ia lemah, dan janganlah menginjak-injak orang yang berkesusahan di pintu gerbang.

Contextual Overview

²² Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement: ²³ For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.

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 כי דל חוא "nam tenuis est", so some in Mercerus. h "Etsi"; so some in Mercerus; "quamvis", Lutherus. i עני "inopem", Schtultens, so Cocceius; "pauperem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., “Do not be tempted by the helplessness of the poor man to do him wrong:” some prefer, “Refrain from doing him wrong through pity for his helplessness.”

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.