Verse List for PROV 18:5

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not necessarily natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible—click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed as a tool for doing comparisons of different translations—the older translations are further down the page (so you can read up from the bottom to trace the English translation history). The OET segments on this page are still early looks into the drafted texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible—please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

B I ◄ ← Prov 18:5 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) It’s not good to show partiality to the wicked ⇔ ≈ or to deprive an innocent person of justice.

OET-LV To _lift _up the_face _of a _wicked_person not is_good to_turn _aside a _righteous_person in_judgement.

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

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

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

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB 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 • Being partial 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.

Moff It is not fair to favour the guilty, ⇔  or to decide against the innocent.

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.

Drby 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.
(To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgement.)

SLT To lift up the face of the unjust one is not good; to turn aside the just one in judgment.

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

KJB-1769 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 judgement.)

KJB-1611 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

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

Gnva 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.)

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

Wycl 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 judgement, that thou/you bow away from the truth of dom.)

Luth Es ist nicht gut, die Person des GOttlosen achten, zu beugen den Gerechten im Gericht.
(It is not good, the Person the godless_one(s) regard, to/for bend/submit the righteous_(ones) in_the court(n)/justice.)

ClVg Accipere personam impii non est bonum, ut declines a veritate judicii.]
(Accipere person wicked not/no it_is good, as declines from with_truth judgement.])

UHB שְׂאֵ֣ת פְּנֵי־רָשָׁ֣ע לֹא־ט֑וֹב לְ⁠הַטּ֥וֹת צַ֝דִּ֗יק בַּ⁠מִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ ‡

BrLXX Θαυμάσαι πρόσωπον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ καλὸν, οὐδὲ ὅσιον ἐκκλίνειν τὸ δίκαιον ἐν κρίσει.

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