Левит 19:15

Русский синодальный перевод

Не делайте неправды на суде; не будь лицеприятен к нищему и неугождай лицу великого; по правде суди ближнего твоего.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.