Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
They that forsake the law praise the wicked,.... Who are like them; who forsake and transgress the law, as they do; every like loves its like; wicked men delight in sin, the transgression of the law,…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
Note, 1. Those that praise the wicked make it to appear that they do themselves forsake the law, and go contrary to it, for that curses and condemns the wicked. Wicked people will speak well of one…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the law not in its Jewish form, "The Law," sc. of Moses, but in its wider sense; and so in Pro 28:28; Pro 28:28, below. See Introd. p. 13.
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