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Proverbs 29:27

Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

An unjust man is an abomination to the just,.... Not his person, but his actions, his unrighteous actions, his ungodly life and conversation; which a man, holy, just, and good, loathes and abhors, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The words point out not only the antagonism between the doers of good and evil, but the instinctive antipathy which the one feels toward the other.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

This expresses not only the innate contrariety that there is between virtue and vice, as between light and darkness, fire and water, but the old enmity that has always been between the seed of the…