Proverbs 18:5 Cross References - CLV

⁵ To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Or to turn aside the righteous in judgment."

¹⁵ You shall not do iniquity in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor nor honor the face of the great. In righteousness shall you judge your companion.

¹⁶ And I instructed your judges at that time, saying:You are to hear the disputes between your brothers, and you will judge justly between a man and his brother or his sojourner. ¹⁷ You shall not recognize faces with partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small as the great. You shall not shrink away from any man's face, because the judgment, it is Elohim's. And the matter which is too hard for you, you shall bring near to me that I may hear it.

¹⁹ You shall not turn aside the judgment; you shall neither recognize faces in partiality nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ and she writes in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people, <sup>10</sup> and cause two men--sons of worthlessness--to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, You have blessed Elohim and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dies.. <sup>11</sup> And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel has sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, <sup>12</sup> they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, <sup>13</sup> and two men--sons of worthlessness--come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed Elohim and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;" ¹⁴ and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead..

⁷ Is it for El that you speak iniquity? And for Him that you speak deceitfully? ⁸ Would you lift up His face? Would you contend for El?

¹⁹ Who does not repute chiefs, Nor is He partial to the rich-man above the poor,For they all are the work of His hands?

² How long shall you judge with iniquity And lift up the faces of the wicked? {Interlude{

¹⁵ He who justifies the wicked person and he who condemns the righteous man, Even both of them are an abhorrence to Yahweh."

²³ These also are sayings of the wise:To be biased in judgment is never good.

²¹ To be biased is not good, Yet for a morsel of bread a master may transgress."

²³ who justify the wicked as the consequence of a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous are taking away from him."

¹⁴ And turned away backward is judgment, and justice is standing afar. For truth is stumbling in the square, and correctness cannot enter."

³ Both palms are set upon the evil to do it thoroughly:The chief is asking, also the judge, for a repayment, and the great one, he is speaking the woe of his soul. And they are entwining it."

¹⁶ And they are dispatching to Him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we are aware that you are true, and are teaching the way of God in truth, and you are not caring concerning anyone, for you are not looking at the face of men."