Proverbs 19:28
An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.
29Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10And suborn two men, sons of Belial against him, and let them bear false witness: that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.
Job 15:16How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Proverbs 16:27The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Hosea 4:8They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to 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 →