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For they don`t know to do right, says Yahweh, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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The Danger of Willful Blindness
Commentators agree that "they know not to do right" describes more than simple ignorance. It's a state of "willful blindness" (Calvin) or a "dead conscience" (Ellicott). Through habitual sin, especially greed, the people had corrupted their moral compass to the point where they lost the ability to perceive, or even care about, the difference between right and wrong.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For - (and) they do not know how to do right. They have not known; they have lost all sense and knowledge of how to do…
19th Century
Anglican
Do not know to do right.— Not merely have lost the perception of what is and what is not right, but are indifferent to su…
16th Century
Protestant
In this verse, he confirms what I have already said about oppressions: he says that they despised everything right. But their not knowing this does…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For they know not to do right, says the Lord What is just and right between man and man, no, not in one single insta…
That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness will justly be brought down and broken. What is obtained and kept wrongfully will not be kept …
