Proverbs 19:28 A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.

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Cross References

Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?

Job 20:12
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?

Proverbs 19:27
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:27. It is the wisdom of young men to dread hearing such talk as puts loose and evil principles into the mind. 28. Those are the worst of sinners, who are glad of an opportunity to sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.