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26 Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good,
    nor to flog nobles for uprightness.

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26 It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:26 Or noble unfairly

Being partial to faces of evil is not good,
    nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

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It is not good to show partiality to the guilty(A)
by perverting the justice due the innocent.(B)

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Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner,
    but the pure is upright in his conduct.

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A guilty man’s conduct is crooked,(A)
but the behavior of the innocent is upright.(B)

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