Proverbs 19:28
A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down iniquity.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.
29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Job 15:16How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Job 34:7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].
Proverbs 16:27A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Hosea 4:8They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for 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 →