Proverbs 19:28 · KJV
“An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. {An...: Heb. A witness of Belial}”
— Proverbs 19:28
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction {that causeth} to err from the words of knowledge.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 19 — Context
He that wasteth {his} father, {and} chaseth away {his} mother, {is} a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction {that causeth} to err from the words of knowledge.
28An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. {An...: Heb. A witness of Belial}
29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Cross References
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Acts 6:11-13
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and {against} God.
Luke 18:2-4
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: {in a city: Gr. in a certain city}
Job 34:7
What man {is} like Job, {who} drinketh up scorning like water?
Job 20:12-13
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, {though} he hide it under his tongue;
1 Kings 21:13
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, {even} against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Psalms 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see {it}.
Isaiah 28:14-18
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which {is} in Jerusalem.