Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
6Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
Psalms 119:100I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Mark 4:10As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.
1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand 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 →