Proverbs 24:24
Good News Translation
If they pronounce a guilty person innocent, they will be cursed and hated by everyone.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;

Contemporary English Version
If you let the guilty go free, people of all nations will hate and curse you.

New American Bible
Whoever says to the guilty party, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by nations, scorned by peoples;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

that

Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Exodus 23:6,7 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment. . . .

Isaiah 5:20,23 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. . . .

Jeremiah 6:13,14 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. . . .

Jeremiah 8:10,11 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully. . . .

Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live.

him shall

Proverbs 11:26 Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Proverbs 30:10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.

Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.

Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
23These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment. 24They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.25They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:26
Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Isaiah 5:23
That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Proverbs 24:23
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