Proverbs 29:7 (BSB)

The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:7: It is a pity but that every one who sues sub form pauperis - as a pauper, should have an honest cause (they are of all others inexcusable if they have not), because the scripture has so well provided that it should have a fair hearing, and that the judge himself should be of counsel, as for the prisoner, so for the pauper. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:7: The righteous considereth the cause of the poor,.... Not his poverty and distress, so as to relieve him, which yet he does, Psa 41:1; nor the person of the poor in judgment, and which he ought not to do; for as he should not regard a rich man's person, and favour him, because he is rich; so neither a poor man, because he is poor...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:7: considereth--literally, "knows," as Psa 1:6. the cause--that is, in courts of justice (compare Pro 29:14). The voluntary neglect of it by the wicked (Pro 28:27) occasions oppression.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:7: Pro 29:7 7 The righteous knoweth the cause of the poor, But the godless understandeth no knowledge. The righteous knoweth and recogniseth the righteous claims of people of low estate, i.e., what is due to them as men, and in particular cases; but the godless has no knowledge from which such recognition may go forth (cf. as to the expression, Pro 19:25).