Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, And he that condemneth the just, Both alike are an abomination to the LORD.
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In Context
16Why should a price be in the hand of a fool To get wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:1False scales are an abomination to the LORD; But a perfect weight is his delight.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to be partial to the wicked, So as to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24He that saith to the wicked, “Thou art righteous,” Him shall the people curse; Nations shall abhor him.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
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 →