Proverbs 29:7 Cross References - Bishops

⁷ The righteous considereth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandyng

⁹ And when Dauids young men came, they told Nabal all those wordes in the name of Dauid: and helde their peace ¹⁰ And Nabal aunswered Dauids seruauntes, and said: Who is Dauid? and who is ye sonne of Isai? There is plentie of seruauntes now a dayes that breake away euery man from his maister ¹¹ Shal I then take my bread, my water, and my fleshe that I haue killed for my shearers, and geue it vnto men whom I wot not whence they be

¹⁶ I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently

¹³ If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me

²¹ If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate

⁷ I wyll be glad and reioyce in thy louing kindnes: for that thou hast considered my trouble, and hast knowen my soule in aduersities

¹ Blessed is he that considereth ye poore: God wyll delyuer hym in the tyme of trouble

¹³ Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde

⁸ Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, [to speake] in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde ⁹ Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse

²⁸ Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie

¹⁵ Thinkest thou to raigne nowe that thou hast inclosed thy selfe with Cedar? Did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper well, as long as he dealt with equitie and righteousnesse ¹⁶ Yea, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well: From whence came this, but onlye because he knewe me, saith the Lorde ¹⁷ Neuerthelesse, as for thyne eyes and thyne heart they loke vpon couetousnesse, to shed innocent blood, to do wrong and violence

⁷ In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse

²⁹ The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right ³⁰ And I sought among them for a man that woulde make vp the hedge, and set hym selfe in the gap before me in the landes behalfe, that I shoulde not destroy it: but I coulde fynde none ³¹ Therfore haue I powred out my cruel displeasure vpon them, and consumed them in the fire of my wrath: their owne wayes wyll I recompence vpon their heades, saith the Lorde God

¹ And I saide, heare I pray you O heads of Iacob, & ye princes of the house of Israel, shoulde not ye know iudgement ² [But] they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones ³ And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron ⁴ Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he wyll not heare them: he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes

¹ Brethren, yf a man be taken in any fault, ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirite of mekenes, consideryng thy selfe, lest thou also be tempted