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Proverbs 24:23

These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Hæc quoque sapientibus. Cognoscere personam in judicio non est bonum.
Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 24:38
Ταῦτα δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν τοῖς σοφοῖς ἐπιγινώσκειν· αἰδεῖσθαι πρόσωπον ἐν κρίσει οὐ καλόν.
Hebrew (WLC)
גַּם אֵ֥לֶּה לַֽחֲכָמִ֑ים הַֽכֵּר פָּנִ֖ים בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט בַּל טֽוֹב

Haydock's commentary

These. Septuagint have an addition, and then our chap. xxx. to ver. 15., after which follows the remainder of this chapter and the ten first verses of the 31st. [chapter.] (Haydock)

Solomon here resumes the sententious style, chap. xxii. 17. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.