箴言 24:28

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

不可無故作證指控你的鄰舍；不可誣告他人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 可 无 故 作 见 证 陷 害 邻 舍 ， 也 不 可 用 嘴 欺 骗 人 。

Contextual Overview

²⁸ Don't testify against your neighbor for no good reason. Don't say things that are false. ²⁹ Don't say, "I'll get even; I'll do to him what he did to me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not: Proverbs 14:5, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 21:28, Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, 1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:10, 1 Kings 21:9-13, Job 2:3, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:11, Psalms 52:1, *title Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60, Matthew 27:23, John 15:25

deceive: Ephesians 4:25, Colossians 3:9, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Leviticus 6:2 - deceived Deuteronomy 16:19 - respect Judges 16:10 - now tell me Proverbs 12:17 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 24:48
and I bowed my head and thanked the Lord . I praised the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, because he led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

Genesis 24:55
Rebekah's mother and her brother said, "Let Rebekah stay with us at least ten days. After that she may go."

Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of Sarah, his mother, and she became his wife. Isaac loved her very much, and so he was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 31:33
So Laban looked in Jacob's tent, in Leah's tent, and in the tent where the two slave women stayed, but he did not find his idols. When he left Leah's tent, he went into Rachel's tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause,.... Unless forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear forward and eager to bear witness against him, and, whenever obliged to it, be not a false witness, but speak truth, whether thy neighbour be a friend or a foe;

and deceive [not] with thy lips; by bearing a false testimony, the judge, thy neighbour and thyself; for though men may be deceived, God cannot: or, shouldest thou do so, "thou wouldest break" and cut him to pieces "with thy lips" x; which is the sense of the words according to R. Judah, as Ben Melech relates.

x והפיתית בשפתיך "et ne atteras labiis tuis", Vatablus; "et ne comminuas eum labiis tuis", Syriac version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:28. Be not a witness — Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbour, in a matter which may prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not require such interference; and especially do not do this in a spirit of revenge, because he has injured thee before.