Proverbs 28:4
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28:4Those who forsake the law10 praise the wicked,11
but those who keep the law contend12 with them.
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- 10 Some commentators do not think that the word refers to the Mosaic law, but to “instruction” or “teaching” in general (cf. “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,” 92 [1973]: 185–204). Moreover, Proverbs 28:9 and 29:18 refer to the law, and this chapter has a stress on piety.
- 11 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.
- 12 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. “resist them”). adds an explanatory expansion, “so as to induce them to repent.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law strive against them.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked,
but those who heed it resist them.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Those who reject the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.
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NLTNew Living Translation
To reject the law is to praise the wicked;
to obey the law is to fight them.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked,
but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.
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KJV 1900King James Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked:
But such as keep the law contend with them.
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