EXO 23:3 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ πένητα οὐκ ἐλεήσεις ἐν κρίσει.
(Kai penaʸta ouk eleaʸseis en krisei. )

OEB No OEB EXO book available

WEBBE You shall not favour a poor man in his cause.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

LSV and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.

FBV Don't show favoritism to poor people in their legal cases either.[fn]

23:3 “Either”: supplied for clarity. Justice has to be even-handed, so showing favoritism to any party is wrong. However, the more usual problem is the denial of justice to the poor (see for example verse 6).

T4T When a poor person is on trial, do not testify in his favor just because he is poor and you feel sorry for him.

LEB You will not be partial to a powerless person[fn] in his legal dispute.

23:3 Or “a poor person”

BBE But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

Moff No Moff EXO book available

JPS neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

ASV neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

DRA Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

YLT and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

Drby Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

RV neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

Wbstr Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

KJB-1769 ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
(¶ Neither shalt thou/you countenance a poor man in his cause. )

KJB-1611 ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poore man in his cause.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause.
(Neither shalt thou/you esteeme a poor man in his cause.)

Gnva Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.
(Thou shalt not esteeme a poor man in his cause. )

Cvdl Thou shalt not paynte a poore mas cause.
(Thou shalt not paynte a poor mas cause.)

Wycl Also thou schalt not haue mercy of a pore man in a `cause, ethir doom.
(Also thou/you shalt not have mercy of a poor man in a `cause, ethir doom.)

Luth Du sollst den Geringen nicht schmücken in seiner Sache.
(You should the Geringen not schmücken in his Sache.)

ClVg Pauperis quoque non misereberis in judicio.[fn]
(Pauperis too not/no misereberis in yudicio. )

23.3 Pauperis quoque non misereberis in judicio. AUG. Ne scilicet contra justitiam pauperi faveas causa misericordiæ. Bona est misericordia, sed non debet esse contra judicium. Judicium autem dicit Scriptura, quod justum est. Ne quis autem propter hanc sententiam Deum putet prohibere misericordiam, opportune sequitur:

23.3 Pauperis too not/no misereberis in yudicio. AUG. Ne scilicet on_the_contrary justitiam pauperi faveas causa misericordiæ. Bona it_is misericordia, but not/no debet esse on_the_contrary yudicium. Yudicium however dicit Scriptura, that justum it_is. Ne who/any however propter hanc sententiam God putet prohibere misericordiam, opportune follows:

Parallel EXO 23:3