Proverbs 24:29
Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
In Context
28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
30I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
Cross References
Judges 15:11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
Proverbs 20:22Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.
Matthew 5:39But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:29-30
28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. We are here forbidden to be in any thing injurious to our neighbour, particularly in and by the forms of law, either, 1. As a witness: "Never bear a testimony against any man without cause, unless what thou sayest thou knowest to be punctually true and thou hast a clear call to testify it. Never bear a false testimony against… Read the whole commentary →