The two ways in the Bible: The wicked don't care about the rights of the poor, but good people do. Proverbs 29:7

The Bible with its wisdom teaches that the faculty of empathy, the ability to put oneself in the place of others, places man in front of two ways: to consider one's neighbor as a brother, or as an object to be used for one's benefit. This is why the good man and the perverted man are on opposite paths and have nothing in common, the perversion is, in essence, the reduction of the other to an object, righteousness and sin as paths are in constant conflict with each other.
This is why the master of wisdom Ben Sira expressed in his famous book a spiritual truth about the mentalities of men, and how this fact can be understood or compared with two opposite natures:
"What does a wolf have in common with a lamb?
The same applies to a sinner with a devout man" Ben Sira 13:17.
For this reason, among other things, the sapiential books recommend so much that the wise and God-fearing men should govern a nation, because if the wicked govern, the weakest lose their rights. Because, as the Book of Proverbs teaches, there is a truth that cannot be ignored: "The wicked don't care about the rights of the poor, but good people do" Proverbs 29:7. When the worst elements of a society govern it, only lies, oppression and deceit remain; but when the wise are at the forefront, prosperity, freedom, and peace bear their fruit of blessing for the weakest and most dispossessed. In other words, just as the wise man edifies, inspires, and educates, the tyrant destroys and corrupts.
And this reasoning that seems so simple and direct is something that in modern society with its economic, religious, and ideological justifications seems to be forgotten, one could say that wisdom, the knowledge of the correct means to live, is the science that is conspicuous by its absence in the modern world. In the history of Israel as told in the Bible, it was the God-fearing men, with their common sense and empathy, who saved the chosen people in their worst moments, just as the wicked men were the origin of their ruin. Everyone remembers Solomon and his wisdom, and David for his courage in battle, but those who neglected their brothers fell into oblivion and contempt.

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