Exodus Chapter 23 verse 3 Holy Bible
neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.
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But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.
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Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
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Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
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and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. After the many precepts in favour of the poor, this injunction produces a sort of shock. But it is to be understood as simply forbidding any undue favouring of the poor because they are poor, and so as equivalent to the precept in Leviticus 19:15, "Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor." In courts of justice, strict justice is to be rendered, without any leaning either towards the rich, or towards the poor. To lean either way is to pervert judgment.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.--We must not "pervert judgment" either in favour of the rich or of the poor. Justice must hold her scales even, and be proof equally against a paltry fear of the rich and a weak compassion for the indigent. The cause alone is to be considered, not the persons. (Comp. Leviticus 19:15.)
