Proverbs 19:28
A wicked witnesse mocketh iudgement: and the mouth of the vngodly deuoureth wickednesse.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.
29Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27An vngodly person stirreth vp euyll, and in his lippes he is as an hotte burnyng fyre.
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 →