Proverbs 19:28
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
29Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Hosea 4:8They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
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 →