Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.
Psalms 119:100I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Mark 4:10And when he became alone, those around him, with the twelve, asked him the parable.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:5
4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Note, 1. Those that praise the wicked make it to appear that they do themselves forsake the law, and go contrary to it, for that curses and condemns the wicked. Wicked people will speak well of one another, and so strengthen one another's hands in their wicked ways, hoping thereby to silence the clamours of their own consciences and to serve the interests of the devil's kingdom, which is not done by any thing so effectually… Read the whole commentary →