Proverbs 19:28
An ungodly witness scorneth at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth mischief.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth [thee] to err from the sayings of knowledge.
29Punishments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10And seat two men, worthless fellows, opposite to him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast blasphemed God and the king; and then lead him forth, and stone him, that he may die.
Job 15:16How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh scorning like water,
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hath hidden his face; he will never see it.
Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up mischief, and on his lips there is as it were a scathing fire.
Hosea 4:8The sin-offering of my people do they eat, and for their iniquity doth the soul of each one of them long.
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 →