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Selected Verse: Proverbs 18:5 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 18:5 |
King James |
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| accept the person--(Compare Psa 82:2). "It is not good" is to be supplied before "to overthrow." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
5 To favour the person of the godless is not good,
And to oppress the righteous in judgment.
As Pro 18:4 has one subject, so Pro 18:5 has one predicate. The form is the same as Pro 17:26. שׂאת פּני (cf. Pro 24:23), προσωποληψία, acceptio personae, is this, that one accepts the פני, i.e. the personal appearance of any one (πρόσωπον λαμβάνει), i.e., regards it as acceptable, respectable, agreeable, which is a thing in itself not wrong; but in a judge who ought to determine according to the facts of the case and the law, it becomes sinful partiality. הטּות, in a forensic sense, with the accus. of the person, may be regarded in a twofold way: either as a turning aside, מדּין, Isa 10:2, from following and attaining unto the right, or as an oppression, for the phrase הטּה משׁפּט [to pervert justice] (cf. Pro 17:23) is transferred to the person who experiences the oppression = perversion of the law; and this idea perhaps always underlies the expression, wherever, as e.g., Mal 3:5, no addition brings with it the other. Under Pro 17:15 is a fuller explanation of לא־טוב. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| To accept the person of the wicked - We must not, in judicial cases, pay any attention to a man's riches, influence, friends, offices, etc., but judge the case according to its own merits. But when the wicked rich man opposes and oppresses the poor righteous, then all those things should be utterly forgotten. |
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.