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Douay-Rheims Bible

Proverbs 23:11

For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Redemption;   Thompson Chain Reference - Redeemer;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kinsman-Redeemer;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Redemption (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Goel;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for their Redeemer is strong,and he will champion their cause against you.
Hebrew Names Version
For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
King James Version
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
English Standard Version
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
New American Standard Bible
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
New Century Version
God, their defender, is strong; he will take their side against you.
Amplified Bible
For their Redeemer is strong and mighty; He will plead their case against you.
World English Bible
For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
For their Redeemer is strong;He will plead their case against you.
Berean Standard Bible
for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Contemporary English Version
God All-Powerful is there to defend them against you.
Complete Jewish Bible
for their Redeemer is strong; he will take up their fight against you.
Darby Translation
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord will be against you. He is powerful and protects orphans.
George Lamsa Translation
For their saviour is mighty; he will plead their cause with you.
Good News Translation
The Lord is their powerful defender, and he will argue their case against you.
Lexham English Bible
For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.
Literal Translation
for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he yt deliuereth them is mightie, euen he shal defende their cause agaynst the.
American Standard Version
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Bible in Basic English
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee.
King James Version (1611)
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
English Revised Version
For their redeemer is strong; he shall plead their cause against thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the neiybore of hem is strong, and he schal deme her cause ayens thee.
Update Bible Version
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you.
Webster's Bible Translation
For their redeemer [is] mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.
New English Translation
for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
New King James Version
For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.
New Living Translation
For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will bring their charges against you.
New Life Bible
For the One Who saves them is strong. He will stand by them and give them help against you.
New Revised Standard
for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
Revised Standard Version
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
Young's Literal Translation
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.

Contextual Overview

10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: 11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 22:23, Exodus 22:22-24, Deuteronomy 27:19, Psalms 12:5, Jeremiah 50:33, Jeremiah 50:34, Jeremiah 51:36

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Deuteronomy 27:17 - General Job 6:27 - the fatherless Job 31:21 - lifted Psalms 35:1 - Plead Psalms 43:1 - plead Psalms 54:1 - judge Psalms 136:24 - General Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 22:22 - Rob Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless Hosea 14:3 - for Amos 4:1 - which oppress Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Malachi 3:5 - against those

Cross-References

Genesis 23:6
My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.
Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:
Genesis 23:12
Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23:18
Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:20
And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.
Numbers 35:30
The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
Deuteronomy 17:6
By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.
Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.
Ruth 4:1
Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
Ruth 4:4
I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For their Redeemer [is] mighty,.... As he must needs be, since the Lord of hosts is his name; who sympathizes with them, has mercy on them, is their father, and their friend; see Jeremiah 50:34;

he shall plead their cause with thee; or "against thee", as the Vulgate Latin version; and will certainly carry it for them, and against thee; for, when he undertakes a cause, he pleads it thoroughly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The reason is given for the precept Proverbs 23:10.

Their redeemer - See Job 19:25 note. It was the duty of the גאל gā'al, the next of kin, to take on himself, in case of murder, the office of avenger of blood Numbers 35:19. By a slight extension the word was applied to one who took on himself a like office in cases short of this. Here, therefore, the thought is that, destitute as the fatherless may seem, there is One who claims them as His next of kin, and will avenge them. Yahweh Himself is in this sense their גאל gā'al, their Redeemer.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 23:11. For their redeemer is mighty — גאלם goalam, their kinsman. The word means the person who has a right, being next in blood, to redeem a field or estate, alienated from the family, to avenge the blood of a murdered relative, by slaying the murderer; and to take to wife a brother's widow, who had died childless, in order to preserve the family. The strength here mentioned refers to the justness of his claim, the extent of his influence, and the powerful abettors of such a cause. But in reference to the orphans here mentioned, they having no kinsman, God takes up, vindicates, and avenges their cause.


 
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