Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness scorns judgment, || And the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.
Literal Standard Version
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 instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.
29Judgments have been prepared for scorners, || And stripes for the back of fools!
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit opposite him, and they testify of him, saying, You have blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dies.”
Job 15:16Also—surely abominable and filthy || Is man drinking perverseness as water.
Job 34:7Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water,
Psalms 10:11He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen.”
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man is preparing evil, || And on his lips [is] as a burning fire.
Hosea 4:8The sin of My people they eat, || And to their iniquity lift up their soul.
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 →