The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 23:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. After the many precepts in favour of the poor, this injunction produces a sort of shock. But it is to be understood as simply forbidding any undue favouring of the poor because they are poor, and so as equivalent to the precept in Le Exodus 19:15, "Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor."

In courts of justice, strict justice is to be rendered, without any leaning either towards the rich, or towards the poor. To lean either way is to pervert judgment.

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