The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
Cross References
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Psalm 41:1Blessed is he who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Proverbs 31:9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Treasury of Scripture
The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
considereth
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 31:13,21
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; …
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
but
Proverbs 21:13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
1 Samuel 25:9-11
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased…
Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
