Proverbs 17:15
The person who acquits the wicked person and the person who condemns the righteous person— 1 both are an abomination to Yahweh. 1
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16Why should a fool pay money to learn about wisdom, 1 when he has no ability to learn it? 1
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Do not join others in making false accusations, and do not kill the innocent or righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13The two dishonest men came in and sat before Naboth; they testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed both God and the king.” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 11:1Yahweh hates scales that are not accurate, 1 but he delights in a precise weight. 1
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to be partial to the wicked person, 1 nor to deny justice to the righteous person. 1
Proverbs 24:24Whoever says to the wicked person, “You are a righteous person,” 1 will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations. 1
Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1
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 →