Focused Passage

Proverbs 17:26

Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint

The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

26 It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

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Verse 26

Original words

It is surely גַּ֤ם H1571 Conjunction not לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle good ט֑וֹב H2896 Adjective - masculine singular to punish עֲנ֣וֹשׁ H6064 Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct the innocent לַצַּדִּ֣יק H6662 Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular or to flog לְהַכּ֖וֹת H5221 Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct a noble נְדִיבִ֣ים H5081 Adjective - masculine plural for עַל־ H5921 Preposition his honesty יֹֽשֶׁר׃ H3476 Noun - masculine singular

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