Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
In Context
4Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.
6Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
Cross References
Psalms 92:6A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; —
Psalms 119:100Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
Jeremiah 4:22For my people [are] foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons [are] they, yea, they [are] not intelligent, Wise [are] they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
Mark 4:10And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,
1 Corinthians 2:14and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are 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 →