Proverbs 17:15 (BSB)

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.

From Proverbs 17. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 17:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 17:15: This shows what an offence it is to God, 1. When those that are entrusted with the administration of public justice, judges, juries, witnesses, prosecutors, counsel, do either acquit the guilty or condemn those that are not guilty, or in the least contribute to either; this defeats the end of government, which is to protect the good and punish the bad, Rom 13:3, Rom 13:4.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 17:15: He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,.... That absolves and clears the guilty, and pronounces him righteous in open court, where he stands arraigned, accused, and the fact proved; and that adjudges an innocent man to condemnation; or passes the sentence of it upon him, when it is a clear case he is not guilty; even they both are abomination to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 17:15: abomination . . . Lord--as reversing His method of acting (Pro 3:32; Pro 12:2).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 17:15: Pro 17:15 15 He that acquitteth the guilty and condemneth the righteous - An abomination to Jahve are they both. The proverb is against the partisan judge who is open to bribery, like Pro 24:24, cf. Isa 5:23, where, with reference to such, the announcement of punishment is emphatically made. רשׁע and צדּיק, in a forensic sense, are equivalent to sons (reus) and insons. גּם (cf. the Arab.