Proverbs 28:4
New International Version
Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.

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

English Standard Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

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

King James Bible
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

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

New American Standard Bible
Those who abandon the Law praise the wicked, But those who keep the Law strive against them.

NASB 1995
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them.

NASB 1977
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them.

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

Amplified Bible
Those who set aside the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, But those who keep the law [of God and man] struggle with them.

Christian Standard Bible
Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law battle against them.

American Standard Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Those that forsake the Law praise evil and those that keep the Law strengthen their souls.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall.

Contemporary English Version
Lawbreakers praise criminals, but law-abiding citizens always oppose them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

English Revised Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who abandon [God's] teachings praise wicked people, but those who follow [God's] teachings oppose wicked people.

Good News Translation
If you have no regard for the law, you are on the side of the wicked; but if you obey it, you are against them.

International Standard Version
Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but whoever keeps it fights them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.

Literal Standard Version
Those forsaking the Law praise the wicked, | Those keeping the Law plead against them.

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

New American Bible
Those who abandon instruction praise the wicked, but those who keep instruction oppose them.

NET Bible
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

New Heart English Bible
Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked; but those who keep the Law contend with them.

Webster's Bible Translation
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

World English Bible
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Young's Literal Translation
Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

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Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
3A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. 4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them. 5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:7
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 14:4
because John had been telling him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

Romans 1:32
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

1 Kings 18:18
"I have not troubled Israel," Elijah replied, "but you and your father's house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.

Nehemiah 13:11
So I rebuked the officials and asked, "Why has the house of God been neglected?" Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.


Treasury of Scripture

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

that

1 Samuel 23:19-21
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? …

Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Psalm 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

but

1 Samuel 15:14-24
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? …

1 Samuel 22:14,15
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house? …

1 Kings 18:18,21
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim…

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(4) They that forsake the law praise the wicked.--The mark of extreme wickedness. (Comp. Romans 1:32.)

But such as keep the law contend with them.--Just as the sight of ill-doing was the one thing which roused our Lord to wrath, while insults and wrongs offered to Himself were passed by unnoticed.

Verse 4. - They that forsake the Law praise the wicked. This they do because they love iniquity, and like to see it extend its influence, and arm itself against the good, who are a standing reproach to them. St. Paul notes it as a mark of extreme wickedness that gross sinners "not only do the same iniquities, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Romans 1:32). Such as keep the Law contend with them; are angry with them. They are filled with righteous indignation; they cannot hold their peace when they see God's Law outraged, and must have the offenders punished (comp. 1 Kings 19:14; Psalm 74:11. etc.; Psalms 119:136, 139; 139:21). The LXX. connects this verse with the latter part of the preceding, thus: "As an impetuous and profitless rain, thus those who forsake the Law praise ungodliness; but they who love the Law raise a wall around themselves."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Those who forsake
עֹזְבֵ֣י (‘ō·zə·ḇê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

the law
ת֭וֹרָה (ṯō·w·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

praise
יְהַֽלְל֣וּ (yə·hal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1984: To shine

the wicked,
רָשָׁ֑ע (rā·šā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

but those who keep
וְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י (wə·šō·mə·rê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

the law
ת֝וֹרָ֗ה (ṯō·w·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

resist
יִתְגָּ֥רוּ (yiṯ·gā·rū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1624: To stir up (strife), engage in strife

them.
פ (p̄)
Punctuation
Strong's Hebrew


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