PRO 18:5 Parallel View

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ULT It is not good to lift the face of the wicked one,
 ⇔ to turn aside the righteous one in the judgment.

UST It is very evil for judges to favor guilty people
⇔ in order to prevent judging innocent people justly.

BSB  ⇔ Showing partiality [fn] to the wicked is not good,
⇔ nor is depriving the innocent of justice.

18:5 Hebrew Lifting the face

OEB It is wrong to favour the guilty,
⇔ to give verdict against the innocent.

WEB To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good,
⇔ nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

NET It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked,
 ⇔ by depriving a righteous man of justice.

LSV Favoring of the face of the wicked [is] not good,
To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

FBV It's not right to show favoritism to the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.

T4T  ⇔ It is not good for a judge to decide matters in favor of those who ◄are guilty/have done wicked things►
⇔ and to not do what is just for those who ◄are innocent/have not done what is wrong►.

LEB • to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

BBE To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

ASV To respect the person of the wicked is not good,
 ⇔ Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

DRA It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

YLT Acceptance of the face of the wicked [is] not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

DBY It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.

RV To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

WBS It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

KJB It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
(It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. )

BB It is not good to regarde the person of the vngodly, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
(It is not good to regarde the person of the ungodly, to ouerthrowe the righteous in judgement.)

GNV It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.
(It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye/you_all righteous to fall in judgement. )

CB It is not good to regarde ye personne of the vngodly, or to put backe ye righteous in iudgmet.
(It is not good to regarde ye/you_all personne of the ungodly, or to put back ye/you_all righteous in iudgmet.)

WYC It is not good to take the persoone of a wickid man in doom, that thou bowe awei fro the treuthe of dom.
(It is not good to take the persoone of a wicked man in doom, that thou/you bow away from the truth of dom.)

LUT Es ist nicht gut, die Person des GOttlosen achten, zu beugen den Gerechten im Gericht.
(It is not gut, the Person the Godlosen achten, to beugen the Gerechten in_the Gericht.)

CLV Accipere personam impii non est bonum, ut declines a veritate judicii.]
(Accipere personam impii not/no it_is bonum, as declines a veritate yudicii.] )

BRN It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgment.

BrLXX Θαυμάσαι πρόσωπον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ καλὸν, οὐδὲ ὅσιον ἐκκλίνειν τὸ δίκαιον ἐν κρίσει.
(Thaumasai prosōpon asebous ou kalon, oude hosion ekklinein to dikaion en krisei. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes

לֹא־ט֑וֹב

not good

Solomon is using a figure of speech here that expresses a strongly positive meaning by using a negative word, not, together with an expression that is the opposite of the intended meaning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the positive meaning. Alternate translation: “It is surely bad”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

שְׂאֵ֣ת פְּנֵי־רָשָׁ֣ע & צַ֝דִּ֗יק בַּ⁠מִּשְׁפָּֽט

to_elevate/lift_up face/surface_of wicked & law-abiding/just in/on/at/with,judgment

Here, the face, the wicked one, the righteous one, and the judgment represent these things and people in general, not specific things and people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “to lift the faces of the wicked ones … the righteous ones in the judgments”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

שְׂאֵ֣ת פְּנֵי

to_elevate/lift_up face/surface_of

Here, to lift the face is an idiom that means “to show partiality” or “to favor”. If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use an idiom from your language that does have this meaning or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to give pride of place to” or “to be partial to”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

רָשָׁ֣ע & צַ֝דִּ֗יק

wicked & law-abiding/just

In this verse, the wicked one refers to someone who is guilty of doing something wicked and the righteous one refers to someone who is innocent of doing something wicked. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. See how you translated the similar use of wicked and righteous in 17:15. Alternate translation: “the guilty one … the innocent one”

Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal

לְ⁠הַטּ֥וֹת

to,subvert

Here, to marks turn aside as the goal or purpose of lifting the face of the wicked one. Use a natural way in your language to express a purpose. Alternate translation: “for the purpose of turning aside”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לְ⁠הַטּ֥וֹת

to,subvert

Here, depriving an innocent person of a just judgment is spoken of as if the righteous one were made to turn aside when judged in court. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to deprive of justice”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

בַּ⁠מִּשְׁפָּֽט

in/on/at/with,judgment

Here, the judgment refers to the verdict of a judge in a legal case. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “regarding the verdict of his case” or “when his case is decided”

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