Proverbs 17:15 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 17:13–16

Read Proverbs 17:15 with 17:13–16. Read alone, “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house”; by 17:16, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, violence, predation, conflict, and protection, reverent accountability before the LORD within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 17:13–16 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, violence, predation, conflict, and protection, reverent accountability before the LORD, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD”.