Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness mocketh at judgment: and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
In Context
27Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to err from the words of knowledge.
29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.
Job 15:16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man deviseth mischief: and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Hosea 4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their 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 →