Proverbs 19:28
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
29Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
Job 15:16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Job 34:7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Proverbs 16:27A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
Hosea 4:8The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:28
27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. This is a good caution to those that have had a good education to take heed of hearkening to those who, under pretence of instructing them, draw them off from those good principles under the influence of which they were trained up. Observe, 1. There is that which seems designed for instruction, but really tends to the destruction of young men. The factors for vice will undertake to teach them free thoughts and a fashionable… Read the whole commentary →