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To turn aside - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their …
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
16th Century
Protestant
16th Century
To keep back. Others render it, to cause them to turn aside; but the true meaning is, to keep back the poor from judgment
John Gill
JohnGill
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century
To turn aside the needy from judgment
Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century
These verses are to be joined with the preceding chapter. Woe to the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And woe to the inf…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
13th Century
Catholic
13th Century
1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.
He threa…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes