Proverbs 18:5
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English Standard Version
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

New American Standard Bible
To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is not good to show partiality to the guilty by perverting the justice due the innocent.

International Standard Version
It's not good to be partial towards an evil person, thereby depriving the righteous of justice.

NET Bible
It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To accept the persons of the evil is not good, neither to pray for judgment upon a righteous one.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is not good to be partial toward a wicked person, thereby depriving an innocent person of justice.

King James 2000 Bible
It is not good to be partial to the wicked, or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

American King James Version
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

American Standard Version
To respect the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

Darby Bible Translation
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.

English Revised Version
To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

World English Bible
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Young's Literal Translation
Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Lexicon
It is not good
towb  (tobe)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun
to accept
nasa'  (naw-saw')
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
the person
paniym  (paw-neem')
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
of the wicked
rasha`  (raw-shaw')
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person -- + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
to overthrow
natah  (naw-taw')
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
the righteous
tsaddiyq  (tsad-deek')
just -- just, lawful, righteous (man).
in judgment
mishpat  (mish-pawt')
a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective
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