THEOSISProverbs 22:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
אַֽל־תִּגְזָל־דָּ֭ל כִּ֣י דַל־ה֑וּא וְאַל־תְּדַכֵּ֖א עָנִ֣י בַשָּֽׁעַר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Zech 7:10And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.
- Mal 3:5And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Prov 22:16He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.
- Ex 23:6Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
- Job 31:16If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
- Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
- Job 29:12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.
- Job 29:16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.