Proverbs 28:5
Evil people do not understand what it means to act justly, but those who try to obey/worship Yahweh understand that very well.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
6It is better to be honest even though you are poor than to be dishonest even though you are rich.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6There are things that you do that foolish people cannot know about, things that stupid people cannot understand.
Psalms 119:100I understand more than many old people do, because I obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
Proverbs 24:7Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not able to say anything that is useful.
Jeremiah 4:22Yahweh says, “My people are very foolish! They do not have a relationship with me. They are like [MET] stupid children who do not understand anything. They very cleverly do what is wrong, but they do not know how to do what is good.”
Mark 4:10Later, when only the twelve disciples and a few other people were with him, they asked him about the parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14Those who are unbelievers reject the truths that God’s Spirit teaches us (inc), because they consider those truths to be foolish. They cannot understand them, because it is God’s Spirit who enables us to evaluate those truths correctly, and those people do not have God’s Spirit.
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 →