Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
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In Context
14The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
16How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
1 Kings 21:13And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
Proverbs 11:1Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
Proverbs 18:5To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Proverbs 24:24He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:15
14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. Here is, 1. The danger that there is in the beginning of strife. One hot word, one peevish reflection, one angry demand, one spiteful contradiction, begets another, and that a third, and so on, till it proves like the cutting of a dam; when the water has got a little passage it does itself widen the breach, bears down all before it, and there is then no stopping it, no reducing it. 2. A good… Read the whole commentary →