Proverbs 22:22
Good News Translation
Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can; don't take advantage of those who stand helpless in court.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Contemporary English Version
Don't take advantage of the poor or cheat them in court.

New American Bible
Do not rob the poor because they are poor, nor crush the needy at the gate;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Proverbs 23:10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

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Proverbs 21:16 A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Exodus 23:6 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Job 29:12-16 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Job 31:16,21 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: . . .

Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Context
Thirty Sayings of the Wise
21That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee. 22Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:23Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Leviticus 25:17
Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 23:16
He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.

Job 31:16
If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Malachi 3:5
And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 22:21
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