Proverbs 19:28
Worthless witnesses in court make fun of judges who try to make fair decisions, and wicked people enjoy doing evil like they enjoy eating good food [MET].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27My son, if you stop learning things, you will soon forget what you already know.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10Then find two men who always cause trouble. Give them places to sit opposite/facing him. Tell these men to testify that they heard Naboth say things that criticized God and the king. Then take Naboth out of the city and kill him by throwing stones at him.”
Job 15:16So, he certainly does not trust abominable/disgusting and depraved/corrupt people who do evil things as easily as they drink water [MET].
Job 34:7◄Is there any person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water?/There is no person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water.► [RHQ]
Psalms 10:11Wicked people say, “God will not pay any attention to what we do. His eyes are covered, so he never sees anything.”
Proverbs 16:27Worthless people plan ways to cause trouble for others, and even what they say injures people like a hot fire does [SIM].
Hosea 4:8The priests get food from the offerings that the people bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned, so the priests want the people to sin more and more in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings.
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 →