Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand judgment, || And those seeking YHWH understand all.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4Those forsaking the Law praise the wicked, || Those keeping the Law plead against them.
6Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, || Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A brutish man does not know, || And a fool does not understand this—
Psalms 119:100Above elderly—I understand more, || For I have kept Your precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom [is] high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22“For My people [are] foolish, || They have not known Me, || They [are] foolish sons, || Indeed, they [are] not intelligent, || They [are] wise to do evil, || And they have not known to do good.”
Mark 4:10And when He was alone, those around Him, with the Twelve, asked Him of the allegory,
1 Corinthians 2:14and the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them], because they are discerned spiritually;
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 →