Indeed, this behavior is certainly wrong and is in violation of the POSIX standard.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/utilities/command.html "-v (On systems supporting the User Portability Utilities option.) Write a string to standard output that indicates **the pathname or command that will be used by the shell**, in the current shell execution environment (see Shell Execution Environment ), to invoke command_name, but do not invoke command_name." (Emphasis mine). The non-executable file will NOT be used either with direct execution or when executing with "command" without -v.
