Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
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16Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Proverbs 11:1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 18:5To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 24:24He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my 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 →