Proverbs 17:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person or to beat a noble for his honesty.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Also to punish the just is not good, Nor to strike princes for equity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Also, to punish or fine the righteous is not good, nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

Common English Bible

²⁶ It isn’t good to punish the righteous, to strike the honorable for their integrity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ It is not good to inflict damage on the just, nor to strike the leader who judges uprightly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.

Proverbs 17:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:25

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’

2 Samuel 19:7

‘Now get up! Go out and encourage  your soldiers, for I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, not a man will remain with you tonight.  This will be worse for you than all the trouble that has come to you from your youth until now! ’

2 Samuel 3:39

As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me.  May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil! ’

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just   – both are detestable to the  Lord.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty, denying an innocent person justice.

Micah 5:1

Now, daughter who is under attack, you slash yourself in grief; a siege is set against us! They are striking the judge  of Israel on the cheek with a rod.

John 18:22

When he had said these things, one of the officials standing by slapped Jesus, saying, ‘Is this the way you answer the high priest? ’