Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A brutish man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.
Psalms 119:100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are foolish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Mark 4:10And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit (o. pneuma) of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he 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 →