Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 18:5

To respect the person of the wicked is not good, `Nor' to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
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BBE Proverbs 18:5

To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
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DARBY Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.
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KJV Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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WBT Proverbs 18:5


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WEB Proverbs 18:5

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
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YLT Proverbs 18:5

Acceptance of the face of the wicked `is' not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - It is not good to accept the person of the wicked. To "accept the person" is to show partiality, to be guided in judgment, not by the facts of a case, or the abstract principles of right or wrong, but by extraneous considerations, as a man's appearance, manners, fortune, family. (For the expression, comp. Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 1:17; and in our book, Proverbs 24:23; Proverbs 28:21.) The Septuagint phrase is θαυμάσαι πρόσωπον, which St. Jude adopts (ver. 16). Other writers in the New Testament use λαμβάνειν πρόσωτον in the same sense; e.g. Luke 20:21; Galatians 2:6). To overthrow (turn aside) the righteous in judgment is not good (comp. Isaiah 10:2). The construction is the same as in Proverbs 17:26. The LXX. adds in the second clause, οὐδὲ ὄσιον, which makes the sentence clear; not seeing this, the Vulgate renders, ut declines a veritate judicii. The offence censured is the perversion of justice in giving sentence against a righteous man whose cause the judge has reason to know is just.

Ellicott's Commentary