Proverbs 29:27 (BSB)
An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 29:27
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:27: This expresses not only the innate contrariety that there is between virtue and vice, as between light and darkness, fire and water, but the old enmity that has always been between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen 3:15. 1. All that are sanctified have a rooted antipathy to wickedness and wicked people.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:27: An unjust man is an abomination to the just,.... Not his person, but his actions, his unrighteous actions, his ungodly life and conversation; which a man, holy, just, and good, loathes and abhors, and cannot forbear expressing his abhorrence of; and therefore shuns his company, and will have no fellowship with him.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:27: (Compare Pro 3:32). On last clause, compare Pro 29:16; Psa 37:12. Next: Proverbs Chapter 30
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:27: Pro 29:27 27 An abomination to a righteous man is a villanous man; And an abomination to the godless is he who walketh uprightly. In all the other proverbs which begin with תועבת, e.g., Pro 11:20, יהוה follows as genit., here צדּיקים, whose judgment is like that of God.