Proverbs 17:15
Whoever is justifying the wicked, || And condemning the righteous, || Even both of these [are] an abomination to YHWH.
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16Why [is] this—a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, || And a heart—there is none?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7you keep far off from a false matter, and you do not slay an innocent and righteous man; for I do not justify a wicked man.
1 Kings 21:13and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit opposite him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king”; and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;
Proverbs 11:1Balances of deceit [are] an abomination to YHWH, || And a perfect weight [is] His delight.
Proverbs 18:5Favoring of the face of the wicked [is] not good, || To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24Whoever is saying to the wicked, “You [are] righteous,” || Peoples execrate him—nations abhor him.
Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,
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 →