Proverbs 17:15
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
16Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
1 Kings 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 11:1Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Proverbs 18:5Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 24:24Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares 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 →