Leviticus 19:15

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Non facies quod iniquum est, nec injuste judicabis. Non consideres personam pauperis, nec honores vultum potentis. Juste judica proximo tuo.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
ait ad eos : Estote parati in diem tertium, et ne appropinquetis uxoribus vestris.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Non facietis, quod iniquum est in iudicio. Non consideres personam pauperis nec honores vultum potentis. Iuste iudica proximo tuo.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 19:35, Exodus 18:21, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:3, Exodus 23:7, Exodus 23:8, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 25:13-16, Deuteronomy 27:19, 2 Chronicles 19:6, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Psalms 82:2, Proverbs 18:5, Proverbs 24:23, James 2:6-9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:16 - Hear 1 Samuel 2:29 - and honourest 1 Kings 21:11 - did as Jezebel Nehemiah 5:7 - I rebuked Job 32:21 - accept Proverbs 31:9 - General Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Zechariah 7:9 - saying 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous Colossians 3:25 - and 1 Timothy 5:21 - without preferring James 2:1 - with James 2:9 - if

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,.... This is said with respect to judges and witnesses, as Aben Ezra notes; that the one should not bear false witness in a court of judicature to the perversion of justice, and the other should not pronounce an unrighteous sentence, justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous:

thou shalt not respect the person of the poor; that is, in judgment, or in a court of judicature, when a cause of his is brought before it; though privately his person may be respected, and he relieved in his distress as a poor man; but in a court of justice his person and character as a poor man are not to be regarded; the cause is not to be given either for him or against him on that account, without regard to the justice and equity of it; he may be pitied in other respects but in a cause between him and another, even a rich man, not pity, but justice, must take place, :-:

nor honour the person of the mighty; not fear to put him to shame and blushing, by giving the cause against him, if he is in the wrong; his riches, his grandeur, his honour, must not came into any account, or have any weight or influence on the court to pervert justice: the Jewish writers, particularly Maimonides z suggest that there was to be no difference between a rich man and a poor man while their cause was trying; that they were to be clothed either both in a rich habit, or both in a mean one; and that their posture was to be alike, whether sitting or standing; as well as that no favour should be shown to one more than to another; as that one might have liberty to speak as much and as long as he pleased, and the other bid to be short; or the one be spoken tenderly to, and the other harshly:

[but] in righteousness shall thou judge thy neighbour; be he rich or poor, doing justice to both, and showing no partiality to either; see

Proverbs 18:5.

z Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 21. sect. 1, 2, 3.