Proverbs 17:26
It is not right to punish a righteous man, nor is it holy to plot against righteous princes.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
In Context
25A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
27He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25By no means shalt thou do as this thing is so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. Thou that judgest the whole earth, shalt thou not do right?
2 Samuel 3:39And that I am this day a mere kinsman of his, and as it were + 3:39 Gr. appointed by a king.a subject; but these men the sons of Saruia are too hard for me: the Lord reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.
2 Samuel 19:7forasmuch as thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee; and thou hast this day declared, that thy princes and thy servants are nothing in thy sight: for I know this day, that if Abessalom were alive, and all of us dead to-day, then it would have been right in thy sight.
Proverbs 17:15He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.
Micah 5:1And thou, Bethleem, house of Ephratha, art few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Juda; yet out of thee shall one come forth to me, to be a ruler of Israel; and his goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:26
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. Observe, 1. Wicked children are an affliction to both their parents. They are an occasion of anger to the father (so the word signifies), because they contemn his authority, but of sorrow and bitterness to the mother, because they abuse her tenderness. The parents, being joint-sufferers, should therefore bring mutual comfort to bear them up under it, and strive to make it as easy as they can, the mother to mollify the father's anger,… Read the whole commentary →