New Revised Standard Version
If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Contemporary English Version
If you won't help the poor, don't expect to be heard when you cry out for help.

New American Bible
Those who shut their ears to the cry of the poor will themselves call out and not be answered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

stoppeth

Psalm 58:4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Zechariah 7:11 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

Acts 7:57 And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and with one accord ran violently upon him.

at

Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5,13 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Isaiah 1:15-17 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. . . .

Isaiah 58:6-9 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. . . .

Jeremiah 34:16,17 And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids. . . .

James 2:13-16 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment. . . .

cry himself

Proverbs 1:28 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Psalm 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

Luke 13:25 But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are.