Proverbs 24:29
Say not: 'I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Cross References
Judges 15:11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.'
Proverbs 20:22Say not thou: 'I will requite evil'; wait for the LORD, and He will save thee.
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 →