Proverbs 22:23

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What does Proverbs 22:23 mean?

Proverbs 22:23 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 22:23

• Psalms 140:12

  I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

• Psalms 12:5

  For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

• Jeremiah 51:36

  Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

• Proverbs 23:11

  For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

• Psalms 35:10

  All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

• Psalms 43:1

  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

• Micah 7:9

  I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

• Jeremiah 50:34

  Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Malachi 3:5

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

• Habakkuk 2:8

  Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

• Isaiah 33:1

  Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

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Context

• Proverbs 22:22

  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

• Proverbs 22:23

  For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

• Proverbs 22:24

  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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