# General Information:

These verses begin the "thirty sayings" Proverbs 22:20.

# Do not rob ... or crush

If your language has a way of showing the way one person would speak strongly to another, you should use it here.

# the poor

"any poor person" or "poor people"

# crush

"treat unjustly"

# the needy

"any needy person"

# at the gate

"in court"