Proverbs 24:23

Amplified Bible

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Here are some further sayings of the wise: It is wrong to show favoritism when passing judgment.

Update Bible Version
These also are [words] of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

New Century Version
These are also sayings of the wise: It is not good to take sides when you are the judge.

New English Translation
These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

Webster's Bible Translation
These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

World English Bible
These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

English Standard Version
These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also these thingis that suen ben to wise men. It is not good to knowe a persoone in doom.

English Revised Version
These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Berean Standard Bible
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Contemporary English Version
Here are some more sayings that make good sense: When you judge, you must be fair.

American Standard Version
These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Bible in Basic English
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Complete Jewish Bible
These also are sayings of the wise: Showing partiality in judgment is not good.

Darby Translation
These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Easy-to-Read Version
These are also words from the wise: A judge must be fair. He must not support some people simply because he knows them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

King James Version (1611)
These things also belong to the wise: It is not good to haue respect of persons in iudgement.

New Life Bible
These also are sayings of the wise. It is not good to show favor in judging.

New Revised Standard
These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also these things perteine to the vvise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.

George Lamsa Translation
These things I say to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment,

Good News Translation
The wise have also said these things: It is wrong for judges to be prejudiced.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These things also, concern he wise, To take note of faces in judgment, is not good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.

Revised Standard Version
These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.

Christian Standard Bible®
These sayings also belong to the wise:It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Hebrew Names Version
These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

King James Version
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Lexham English Bible
These sayings are also for the wise: Partiality in judgment is not good.

Literal Translation
These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good.

Young's Literal Translation
These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are also ye saieges of ye wyse. It is not good, to haue respecte of any personne in iudgmet.

THE MESSAGE

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Fear God , dear child—respect your leaders; don't be defiant or mutinous. Without warning your life can turn upside down, and who knows how or when it might happen? It's wrong, very wrong, to go along with injustice.

New American Standard Bible
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

New King James Version
These things also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Legacy Standard Bible
These also are sayings of the wise.To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Contextual Overview

²³These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.²⁴He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous," Peoples will curse him, nations will denounce him; ²⁵But to those [honorable judges] who rebuke the wicked, it will go well with them and they will find delight, And a good blessing will come upon them. ²⁶He kisses the lips [and wins the hearts of people] Who gives a right and straightforward answer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

things: Psalms 107:43, Ecclesiastes 8:1-5, Hosea 14:9, James 3:17

It: Proverbs 18:5, Proverbs 28:21, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:19, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Psalms 82:2-4, John 7:24, 1 Timothy 5:20, 1 Timothy 5:21, James 2:4-6, 1 Peter 1:17

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Job 13:8 - General Job 32:21 - accept Psalms 36:4 - setteth Proverbs 17:15 - that justifieth Proverbs 30:10 - Accuse not Romans 2:11 - General Romans 13:4 - he is James 2:1 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These [things] also [belong] to the wise,.... Both what is said before concerning fearing God and the king; these belong to the wise and unwise, rich and poor, great and small; particularly judges and civil magistrates, and all subordinate governors, who have, or ought to have, a competency of wisdom; these ought to fear God and the king, as well as private subjects; and also what follows after, especially in this verse and Proverbs 24:24. Some render the words, "these things also [are the sayings] of wise men" u; not of Solomon, but of other wise men in his time, or who lived after him, and before the men of Hezekiah copied out the proverbs in the following chapters; see Proverbs 25:1; but it seems more than probable that what follows to the end of the chapter are the words of Solomon, as Proverbs 24:33 most clearly are, compared with Proverbs 6:10;

[it is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment; in trying causes in a court of judicature, no regard should be had to the persons of men by the judge on the bench, as the rich more than to the poor; or to a relation, a friend, an intimate acquaintance, more than to a stranger; but the justice of the cause ought to be attended to, and sentence given according to it, let it fall as it will: God does not accept persons, nor regard the rich more than the poor; nor should they that stand in his stead, and who in some sense represent him, Leviticus 19:15 Deuteronomy 1:17; nor should Christians in their communities act such a partial part, James 2:1.

u גם אלה לחכמים "haec quoqne sapientum sunt", Tigurine version; "etiam haec sapientibus profecta sunt", Piscator; "etiam haecce sapientum", Cocceius, Schultens, so Grotius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Belong to the wise - Either “are fitting for the wise, addressed to them,” or (as in the superscriptions of many of the Psalms) “are written by the wise.” Most recent commentators take it in the latter sense, and look on it as indicating the beginning of a fresh section, containing proverbs not ascribed to Solomon’s authorship. Compare the introduction to Proverbs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:23. These things also belong to the wise. — גם אלה לחכמים gam elleh lachachamim, "These also to wise." This appears to be a new section; and perhaps, what follows belongs to another collection. Probably fragments of sayings collected by wise men from the Proverbs of Solomon.

It is not good to have respect — Judgment and justice should never be perverted.