Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not.
Ver. 24. Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul.] Since to hold the bag is as bad as to fill it; to consent to sin or to conceal it, as bad as to commit it. By the one as well as by the other, a man may easily become, as Korah did, "a sinner against his own soul," and cruelly cut the throat of it. Let our public thieves look to this. See Isaiah 1:23 .
He heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.] See Leviticus 5:1. See Trapp on " Lev 5:1 " To conceal treason is treason, so here. "Have no fellowship therefore with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Let me be counted proud or pragmatic, saith Luther, a rather than found guilty of sinful silence, while my Lord suffereth.
a Luth. Epist. ad Staupic