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Proverbs 28:4

Context
NETBible

Those who forsake the law 1  praise the wicked, 2  but those who keep the law contend 3  with them.

NIV ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

NASB ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them.

NLT ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.

MSG ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

If you desert God's law, you're free to embrace depravity; if you love God's law, you fight for it tooth and nail.

BBE ©

SABDAweb Pro 28:4

Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

NRSV ©

bibleoremus Pro 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

NKJV ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them.

[+] More English

KJV
They that forsake
<05800> (8802)
the law
<08451>
praise
<01984> (8762)
the wicked
<07563>_:
but such as keep
<08104> (8802)
the law
<08451>
contend
<01624> (8691)
with them.
NASB ©

biblegateway Pro 28:4

Those who forsake
<05800>
the law
<08451>
praise
<01984>
the wicked
<07563>
, But those who keep
<08104>
the law
<08451>
strive
<01624>
with them.
LXXM
(35:4) outwv
<3778
ADV
oi
<3588
T-NPM
egkataleipontev
<1459
V-PAPNP
ton
<3588
T-ASM
nomon
<3551
N-ASM
egkwmiazousin {V-PAI-3P} asebeian
<763
N-ASF
oi
<3588
T-NPM
de
<1161
PRT
agapwntev
<25
V-PAPNP
ton
<3588
T-ASM
nomon
<3551
N-ASM
periballousin
<4016
V-PAI-3P
eautoiv
<1438
D-DPM
teicov
<5038
N-ASN
NET [draft] ITL
Those who forsake
<05800>
the law
<08451>
praise
<01984>
the wicked
<07563>
, but those who keep
<08104>
the law
<08451>
contend
<01624>
with them.
HEBREW
P
Mb
<0>
wrgty
<01624>
hrwt
<08451>
yrmsw
<08104>
esr
<07563>
wllhy
<01984>
hrwt
<08451>
ybze (28:4)
<05800>

NETBible

Those who forsake the law 1  praise the wicked, 2  but those who keep the law contend 3  with them.

NET Notes

sn Some commentators do not think that the word refers to the Mosaic law, but to “instruction” or “teaching” in general (cf. NCV “who disobey what they have been taught”). However, the expression “keep the law” in the second line indicates that it is binding, which would not be true of teaching in general (J. Bright, “The Apodictic Prohibition: Some Observations,” JBL 92 [1973]: 185-204). Moreover, Proverbs 28:9 and 29:18 refer to the law, and this chapter has a stress on piety.

sn The proverb gives the outcome and the evidence of those who forsake the law – they “praise the wicked.” This may mean (1) calling the wicked good or (2) justifying what the wicked do, for such people are no longer sensitive to evil.

tn The verb is the Hitpael imperfect of גָּרָה (garah), which means “to stir up strife” but in this stem means “to engage in strife” (cf. NIV “resist them”). Tg. Prov 28:4 adds an explanatory expansion, “so as to induce them to repent.”




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