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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hep that justifieth
tsadaq (Hebrew #6663)
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
KJV usage: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Pronounce: tsaw-dak'
Origin: a primitive root
the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
, and he that condemneth
rasha` (Hebrew #7561)
to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate
KJV usage: condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: raw-shah'
Origin: a primitive root
the just
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
, even they both
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
are abomination
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
to the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Ex. 23:7• 7Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. (Ex. 23:7)
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Isa. 5:23‑24• 23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them!
 24Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:23‑24)

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Ministry on This Verse

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that justifieth.
Prov. 24:23‑24• 23These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
 24He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him; (Prov. 24:23‑24)
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Ex. 23:7• 7Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. (Ex. 23:7)
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1 Kings 21:13• 13And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. (1 Kings 21:13)
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Isa. 5:23• 23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them! (Isa. 5:23)
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Isa. 55:8‑9• 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa. 55:8‑9)
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Ezek. 22:27‑29• 27Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
 28And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.
 29The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:27‑29)
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Amos 5:7,12• 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
 12For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate. (Amos 5:7,12)
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Amos 6:12• 12Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, (Amos 6:12)
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Luke 23:18‑25• 18But they cried out in a mass saying, Away with this man and release Barabbas to us;
 19who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and for murder, had been cast into prison.
 20Pilate therefore, desirous to release Jesus, again addressed them.
 21But they cried out in reply saying, Crucify, crucify him.
 22And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this man done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will chastise him therefore and release him.
 23But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.
 24And Pilate adjudged that what they begged should take place.
 25And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will. (Luke 23:18‑25)
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Rom. 4:5• 5but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness. (Rom. 4:5)
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James 5:6• 6ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. (James 5:6)
abomination.
Prov. 6:16• 16These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him: (Prov. 6:16)
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Prov. 11:1• 1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight. (Prov. 11:1)
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Prov. 15:8• 8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Prov. 15:8)
• To justify the wicked and to condemn the righteous is to call evil good, and good evil (Isa. 5:20). Jehovah would have judgment according to truth. What is opposed to this is an abomination. Observe that to justify necessarily means to clear, or to declare righteous; not, as some theologians would have it, to make righteous. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)
• Here, to justify the lawless is to wink at sin and to pass by iniquity without a suited atonement; while to condemn the just is to impute evil where it is not found. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He that justifieth the wickedd, and he that condemneth the righteousd, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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The words are in the singular and characteristic; and so in ch. 18.5.