Proverbs 28:5
Wicked men understand not equity; But they who seek the LORD understand all things.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4They who forsake the law praise the wicked; But they who keep the law contend with them.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6But the unwise man knoweth not this, And the fool understandeth it not.
Psalms 119:100I have more wisdom than the ancients, Because I keep thy precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for the fool; He openeth not his mouth at the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22My people is foolish, They have no regard to me; Stupid children are they, And have no understanding; They are wise to do evil, But for doing good they have no knowledge.
Mark 4:10And when he was in private, they who were about him, with the twelve, asked him about the parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.
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 →