Spreuken 18:5

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Het is niet goed een boze voor te trekken, een onschuldige in het gericht op zijde te duwen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Het is niet goed den persoon des goddelozen te achten, om den rechtvaardige in het gericht te drukken.

Staten Vertaling
Het is niet goed, het aangezicht des goddelozen aan te nemen, om den rechtvaardige in het gericht te buigen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not: Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 28:21, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:19, Job 13:7, Job 13:8, Job 34:19, Matthew 22:16

to overthrow: 1 Kings 21:9-14, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 59:14, Micah 7:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:7 - If thou doest well Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Psalms 82:2 - accept Psalms 140:4 - overthrow Proverbs 17:26 - to punish 1 Timothy 5:21 - without preferring

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked,.... For a judge to have respect to a wicked man in a cause before him, and to favour him, because he is a rich man, or a relation, or he has received some kindness from him; none of these things should have any influence upon him

to overthrow the righteous in judgment: though he may be a poor man and a stranger, and to whom the judge is under no private and personal obligation; yet justice ought to be done without any respect to persons; to do otherwise is not only not good, but very bad, very sinful and criminal; it is contrary to law and justice; it is doing injury to men, and is repugnant to the will of God, and offensive to him, Leviticus 19:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:5. To accept the person of the wicked — We must not, in judicial cases, pay any attention to a man's riches, influence, friends, offices, &c., 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.