Proverbs 22:22

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

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Deuteronomy 24:15
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

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Psalms 72:4
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Psalms 146:7
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

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Proverbs 22:24
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,

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Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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Ezekiel 22:29
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.

Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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