Proverbs 17:15
Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these [are] an abomination to Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Why [is] this — a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.
1 Kings 21:13and two men — sons of worthlessness — come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, 'Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;
Proverbs 11:1Balances of deceit [are] an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight [is] His delight.
Proverbs 18:5Acceptance of the face of the wicked [is] not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24Whoso is saying to the wicked, 'Thou [art] righteous,' Peoples execrate him — nations abhor him.
Isaiah 55:8For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of 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 →