Proverbs 19:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Proverbs 19:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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; …
Luke 18:2-4
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: …
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 28)

Here is a description of the worst of sinners, whose hearts are fully set in them to do evil. 1. They set that at defiance which would deter and detain them from sin: An ungodly witness is one that bears false witness against his neighbour, and will forswear himself to do another a mischief, in which there is not only great injustice, but great impiety; this is one of the worst of men. Or an ungod…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. ungodly witness--(Compare Margin), one false by bad principles (compare Pr 6:12). scorneth judgment--sets at naught the dictates of justice. devoureth--literally, “swalloweth,” as something delightful.