Proverbs 29:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The king by judgment By the free and impartial exercise of justice; establisheth the land Restores his kingdom to a firm and good state, though it might before be in great disorder; but he that receiveth gifts Hebrew, אישׁ תרומות, a man of oblations, or gifts, whose delight and common practice it is to take bribes and sell justice; overthroweth it

Subverts it utterly, though it might before be never so well settled.

Proverbs 29:4

4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but heb that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.