Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
Psalms 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Mark 4:10And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him [as to] the parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;
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 →