22Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,


In Context

19 So that your trust may be in the Lord , I teach you today, even you.

20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,

21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?

22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,

23 for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.

24 Do not make friends with a hot- tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,

Proverbs 22:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:22Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: