SEV Biblia, Chapter 29:4
¶ El rey con el juicio afirma la tierra; mas el hombre amigo de presentes la destruirá.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:4
Verse 4. He that receiveth gifts ] This was notoriously the case in this kingdom, before the passing of the Magna Charta, or great charter of liberties. Hence that article in it, Nulli vendemus justitiam; "We will not sell justice to any." I have met with cases in our ancient records where, in order to get his right, a man was obliged almost to ruin himself in presents to the king, queen, and their favourites, to get the case decided in his favour.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. The king by judgment establisheth the land , etc.] By executing, judgment and justice among his subjects, he establishes the laws of the land, and the government of it; he secures its peace and prosperity, and preserves his people in the possession at their properties and privileges; and makes them rich and powerful, and the state stable and flourishing, so that it continues firm to posterity; such a king was Solomon, ( 2 Chronicles 9:8); but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it ; that, is, a king that does so; Gersom observes that he is not called a king, because such a man is not worthy of the name, who takes gifts and is bribed by them to pervert judgment and justice; whereby the laws of the nation are violated, and the persons and properties of his subjects become the prey of wicked men; and so the state is subverted and falls to ruin: it is in the original text, “a man of oblations” f805 ; the word is generally used of the sacred oblations or offerings under the law; hence some understand it of a sacrilegious prince who of his own arbitrary power converts sacred things to civil uses. The Targum, Septuagint, Syriac and Arabic versions render it, a wicked and ungodly man; and the Vulgate Latin version, a covetous man; as such a prince must be in whatsoever light he is seen, whether as a perverter of justice through bribes, or as a sacrilegious man; though it may be rendered, “a man of exactions” f806 , for it is used of the oblation of a prince which he receives from his people, ( Ezekiel 45:9,13); as Aben Ezra observes; and so it may be interpreted of a king that lays heavy taxes upon his people, and thereby brings them to distress and poverty, and the state to ruin.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4 - The Lord Jesus is the King who will minister true judgment to the people.
Original Hebrew
מלך 4428 במשׁפט 4941 יעמיד 5975 ארץ 776 ואישׁ 376 תרומות 8641 יהרסנה׃ 2040
