Proverbs 17:15

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD. HE THAT JUSTIFIETH THE WICKED, AND HE THAT CONDEMNETH THE JUST, EVEN THEY BOTH (ARE) AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD - (Isaiah 5:20; Isaiah 5:23.) We ought to be of one mind with God concerning both "the wicked" and "the just" respectively (2 Chronicles 19:2; 1 Kings 8:32). This verse shows that the term "justify" (Hebrew, matsdiyq (H6663)) is forensic, to pronounce just one, even though not just in himself: a ke...

People need to be warned against an unjust acquittal, no less than against unjust condemnation. The word “justifieth” has its forensic sense, “to declare righteous,” to acquit....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) BETTER (sweeter) IS A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH. Dry bread was soaked in wine or water before it was eaten. Thus Boaz bid Ruth "dip her morsel in the vinegar" (Ruth 2:14); thus Jesus gave the sop to Judas when he had dipped it (John 13:26). The Septuagint is pleonastic, "Better is a morsel with joy in peace." Ab

HE THAT JUSTIFIETH THE WICKED, AND HE THAT CONDEMNETH THE JUST,.... That absolves and clears the guilty, and pronounces him righteous in open court, where he stands arraigned, accused, and the fact proved; and that adjudges an innocent man to condemnation; or passes the sentence of it upon him, when it is a clear case he is not guilty; EVEN THEY BOTH [ARE] ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: being contrary to law and justice, to the declared will of God, and the orders and instructions given by him to judges, Deuteronomy 25:1; such an abominable action were the Jews guilty of in desiring Barabbas, a wicked man, to be released, and Christ, the just One, to be condemned; and Pilate in complying with them. From this passage we learn, that the word "justify" is used in a forensic sense, for pronouncing persons just in a court of judicature; and in which sense it is used in the art

CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs 17:3). Man may try silver and gold, but God only the hearts. And He tries the hearts by the refining process, trials and afflictions, the process which rests in His own hands. (See Psalms 66:10; Malachi 3:3; 1 Peter 1:7 .) “He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends” (Proverbs 17:9). To

PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes (Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test of friendship (Proverbs 17:17): also the subject of suretyship, dealt with in Proverbs 6:1, is resumed (Proverbs 17:18). PROVERBS 17:1. For the connexion betwee

JUSTIFIETH THE WICKED, &C. Illustrations: the counsellors (Ezra 4:1); Tertullus (Acts 24:1); Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 21:5). Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). _Mazdik rasha' umarshia' zadik,_ which may be Englished, "he who wrongs the right and rights the wrong". THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. THE JUST. a just one. ABOMINATION, &C. See note on Proverbs 3:32....

Comp. Isaiah 5:23....

TEXT Proverbs 17:11-19 11. An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly. 13. Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling. 15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah. 16. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding? 17. A friend loveth at all times; And brother is born for adversity. 18. A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becomet

17:15 wicked, (d-5) righteous, (d-11) The words are in the singular and characteristic; and so in ch. 18.5....