Proverbs 30:10

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Summary

Proverbs 30:10

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Accuse not

Lest

2 Chronicles 24:22

Bible References

Accuse not

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.

Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Lest

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him --

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May Yahweh look at it, and repay it."