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  1. Advancement Is Meaningless

    Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
  2. Riches Are Meaningless

    If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
  3. What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
  4. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
  5. So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
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26 topical index results for “poor”

COLLECTION : (Of money, for the poor people)
LAND : To rest every seventh year for the benefit of the poor people (Exodus 23:11)
PHILANTHROPY : See POOR
POTTERY : Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people (Matthew 27:7-10)
SELFISHNESS : See POOR
AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES » UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO » See POOR
ALMS » COMMANDMENTS AND PRACTICES CONCERNING » See POOR
BEGGARS » INSTANCES OF » See POOR
CHURCH » MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS » CONGREGATION OF THE LORD'S POOR (Psalms 74:19)
DISHONESTY » INSTANCES OF » Judas' hypocritical sympathy for the poor ( John 12:6)
INCONSISTENCY » INSTANCES OF » The Jews, in oppressing the poor (Nehemiah 5:9)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » The poorest of the people were left to occupy the country, and were joined by fragments of the army of Judah, the dispersed Israelites in other lands, and the king's daughters (2 Kings 25:12,22,23; Jeremiah 39:10;40:7-12;52:16)
LIBERALITY » INSTANCES OF » The poor widow (Luke 21:2-4)