Proverbs 19:28
An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10And send out two men, sons of Belial, against him. And let them speak the false testimony: ‘He has blasphemed God and king.’ And then lead him away, and stone him, and so let him die.”
Job 15:16How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
Job 34:7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
Proverbs 16:27The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Hosea 4:8They will devour the sins of my people, and they will lift up their souls towards their iniquity.
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 →