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Gifts, Reproof, Strife, and Just Judgment
This cluster explores how influence, correction, and conflict work. Love can cover an offense while repeated retelling divides friends, wise people receive a rebuke deeply, and justice is inverted when the wicked are justified or the righteous condemned—both are abhorrent to the LORD.
Exodus commands Israel not to condemn the innocent or justify the wicked, and Proverbs declares both justifying the wicked and condemning the just to be abominations to the LORD. The wisdom text therefore develops Torah’s concern that legal judgment must preserve rather than invert guilt and innocence.
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