Proverbs 28:5
Bad men understand not justice; but they that seek the Lord understand all things.
Leeser Tanakh
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 observe the law contend with them.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6(92:7) A brutish man knoweth it not, and a fool cannot understand this.
Psalms 119:100More than the elders do I possess understanding; because thy precepts do I keep.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: in the gate can he not open his mouth.
Jeremiah 4:22“Because my people is foolish, me have they not known; sottish children are they, and they have not any understanding: wise are they to do evil, but how to do good they do not know.”
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 →