Proverbs 22:22

WEB

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

KJV

²²Rob^[+] not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

BSB

²²Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

FBV

²²For you shouldn't steal from the poor just because they're poor; and you shouldn't crush those with limited means in court,

Extra References

Zechariah 7:10

¹⁰Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

⁵I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.

Proverbs 22:16

¹⁶Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Exodus 23:6

⁶“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Job 31:21

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Job 31:16

¹⁶“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Ezekiel 22:29

²⁹The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Proverbs 23:10-11

¹⁰Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Job 29:12-16

¹²because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, ¹³the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. ¹⁶I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.