Peter:
In Leviticus 20:17 is the XSD connected with the incest or the punishment? If with the incest then yes, it refers to a negative, but if with the punishment, then it is undeserved good favor to banish them when they deserve death.
In Proverbs 14:34 I understand as "Justice exults a nation, but undeserved good favor of peoples errs." The root meaning of X+) is to miss the mark, to err from which the theological meaning of sin is a derivative. (The New Testament use of hAMARTIA is a parallel to this use, a direct copy of Hebrew usage.) This is one of the cases where I think translating using the theological understanding errs.
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