Proverbs 23 · Verse 11

Proverbs 23:11

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs 23:11, King James Version

Proverbs 23:11 in other translations

BSBfor their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
WEBfor their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
ASVFor their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
YLTFor their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
DARBYfor their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
BBEFor their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
WebsterFor their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.

What does Proverbs 23:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:10-11

10-11. (Compare Pr 22:22, 23).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 For their redeemer is mighty - גאלם goalam, their kinsman. The word means the person who has a right, being next in blood, to redeem a field or estate, alienated from the family, to avenge the blood of a murdered relative, by slaying the murderer; and to take to wife a brother's widow, who had died childless, in order to preserve the family. The strength here mentioned refers to the justness of his claim, the extent of his influence, and the powerful abettors of such a cause. But in reference to the orphans here mentioned, they having no kinsman, God takes up, vindicates, and avenges their cause.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 23:10-11

The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.

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Proverbs 23:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
גֹאֲלָ֥םgo.'a.Lamredeemer theirH1350
חָזָ֑קcha.Zak[is] strongH2389
הֽוּא\־hu'-heH1931
יָרִ֖יבya.Rivhe will conductH7378
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
רִיבָ֣םri.Vamcase theirH7379
אִתָּֽךְ\׃'i.Takhwith youH854

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 23:11

  • Proverbs 22:23

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

  • Job 19:25

    For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

  • Exodus 22:22-24

    Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Deuteronomy 27:19

    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 50:33-34

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
22:23; Ex 22:22-24; De 27:19; Ps 12:5; Jer 50:33,34; 51:36

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 23:10

    Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Proverbs 23:11

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

  • Proverbs 23:12

    Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Read all of Proverbs 23

Proverbs 23:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque el defensor de ellos es el Fuerte, el cual juzgará la causa de ellos contra ti.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		car leur rédempteur est fort, il prendra en main leur cause contre toi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn ihr Erlöser ist stark; er wird ihren Rechtsstreit wider dich führen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		propinquus enim illorum fortis est, et ipse judicabit contra te causam illorum.