Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not justice; but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 92:6(92-7) A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this.
Psalms 119:100I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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 →