Proverbs 24:29
Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
In Context
28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
30I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
Cross References
Judges 15:11Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Proverbs 20:22Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.
Matthew 5:39But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: Not to resist evil, etc... What is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and Acts 23.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:29-30
28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. We are here forbidden to be in any thing injurious to our neighbour, particularly in and by the forms of law, either, 1. As a witness: "Never bear a testimony against any man without cause, unless what thou sayest thou knowest to be punctually true and thou hast a clear call to testify it. Never bear a false testimony against… Read the whole commentary →