Proverbs 17:15
He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
14Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.
Cross References
Exodus 23:7You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not kill the innocent and just, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts.
1 Kings 21:13And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord, Have you seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into your hands; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Proverbs 11:1False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgement.
Proverbs 24:24He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful amongst the nations.
Isaiah 55:8For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says 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 →