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Proverbios 17:26
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- InternationalParallel Translations
Ciertamente no es bueno multar al justo, ni golpear a los nobles por su rectitud.
Ciertamente no es bueno condenar al justo, ni herir a los pr�ncipes que hacen lo recto.
Ciertamente no es bueno condenar al justo, ni herir a los pr�ncipes por hacer lo recto.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to punish: Proverbs 17:15, Proverbs 18:5, Genesis 18:25
to strike: 2 Samuel 3:23-25, 2 Samuel 3:39, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, 2 Samuel 19:7, Job 34:18, Job 34:19, Micah 5:1, John 18:22
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Jeremiah 37:18 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Also to punish the just [is] not good,.... It is evil, and an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 17:15. Evildoers indeed should be punished; but to punish the righteous also, as well as them, is far from being commendable;
[nor] to strike princes for equity: to strike princes, judges, civil magistrates, for doing the duty of their place and office, for doing that which is just and equitable among men, is very criminal, who ought to be encouraged and supported therein. Or it may be rendered, nor "that princes should strike for [that which is] right" b or cause men to be stricken, scourged, and whipped for doing well. The Targum is,
"nor to smite the righteous, who say right things;''
and so the Syriac version renders it, "righteous ones"; and the word signifies ingenuous liberal persons, good men, such as princes are or ought to be; and who should neither be stricken in the due discharge of their office, nor strike others that do well.
b להכות נדיבים על יושר "principes percuiere ob rectitudinem", Mercerus; "propter recta facta", Piscator, Gataker.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Nor to strike ... - Better, and to strike the noble (in character rather than in rank) is against right. Compare John 18:28.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:26. Nor to strike princes for equity. — To fall out with the ruler of the people, and to take off his head under pretence of his not being a just or equitable governor, is unjust. To kill a king on the ground of justice is a most dreadful omen to any land. Where was it ever done, that it promoted the public prosperity? No experiment of this kind has ever yet succeeded, howsoever worthless the king might be.
