Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4Those who forsake the Torah praise the wicked; but those who keep the Torah contend with them.
6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Psalms 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Mark 4:10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t 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 →