Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.
Darby Translation
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In Context
16To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Proverbs 11:1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him;
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
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 →