Proverbs 22:22
“Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate.”
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Proverbs 22:22 Context
20Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge: 21That I might make thee knowe the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answere the words of trueth to them that send vnto thee? 22Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate. 23For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoile the soule of those that spoiled them. 24Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe;
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Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- King James Version
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Or crush the afflicted at the gate;
- New American Standard Version (1995)