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Proverbs 22

Prov. 22:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Rob
gazal (Hebrew #1497)
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
KJV usage: catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.
Pronounce: gaw-zal'
Origin: a primitive root
not the poor
dal (Hebrew #1800)
properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin
KJV usage: lean, needy, poor (man), weaker.
Pronounce: dal
Origin: from 1809
, because he is poor
dal (Hebrew #1800)
properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin
KJV usage: lean, needy, poor (man), weaker.
Pronounce: dal
Origin: from 1809
: neither oppress
daka' (Hebrew #1792)
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
Pronounce: daw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1794)
the afflicted
`aniy (Hebrew #6041)
depressed, in mind or circumstances (practically the same as 6035, although the margin constantly disputes this, making 6035 subjective and 6041 objective)
KJV usage: afflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor.
Pronounce: aw-nee'
Origin: from 6031
in the gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
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Ministry on This Verse

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Rob.
Prov. 23:10‑11• 10Remove not the ancient landmark,{HR}And enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
 11For their redeemer [is] strong;{HR}He will plead their cause against thee. (Prov. 23:10‑11)
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Ezek. 22:29• 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:29)
oppress.
Prov. 22:16• 16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [wealth],{HR}He that giveth to the rich, surely [cometh] only to want. (Prov. 22:16)
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Ex. 23:6• 6{i}Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.{/i} (Ex. 23:6)
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Job 29:12‑16• 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched. (Job 29:12‑16)
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Job 31:16,21• 16If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine,
 21If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate; (Job 31:16,21)
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Zech. 7:10• 10{i}and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.{/i} (Zech. 7:10)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And 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 Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
in the gate.That is, in the court of justice, which, as we have already seen, was held at the gates of cities in the East.
• This is a warning word to those who sit in the place of judgment, to which the gate refers. If the ways of justice are perverted, let him who renders a false and oppressive sentence, remember that the supreme Judge is looking on. (“Proverbs Twenty-Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;