Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Reproach - The word so rendered has this sense in the Targum of Leviticus 20:17. Its more usual meaning is "mercy," "piety;" hence, some have attached to the word rendered "sin" the sense of "sin-offering," and so get the maxim "piety is an atonement for the people."
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 14:34:
Psalms 89:16
Amos 5:27
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