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Proverbs 21:7

Proverbs 21:7

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (v. 6) is

no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as

well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a

bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it

will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose

whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all

men. 2. The cause of injustice. Men refuse to do judgment; they will

not render to all their due, but withhold it, and omissions make way

for commissions; they come at length to robbery itself. Those that

refuse to do justice will choose to do wrong. 3. The effects of

injustice; it will return upon the sinner's own head. The robbery of

the wicked will terrify them (so some); their consciences will be

filled with horror and amazement, will cut them, will saw them asunder

(so others); it will destroy them here and for ever, therefore he had

said (v. 6), They seek death.

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