Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
Young's Literal Translation
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 — To err from sayings of knowledge.
29Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
Cross References
1 Kings 21:10and cause two men — sons of worthlessness — to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'
Job 15:16Also — surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
Job 34:7Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Psalms 10:11He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips — as a burning fire.
Hosea 4:8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.
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 →