Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.
New American Standard Bible
But those who seek the Lord
King James Version
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Holman Bible
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
International Standard Version
Evil men don't understand justice, but whoever seeks the LORD understands it all.
A Conservative Version
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.
American Standard Version
Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.
Amplified
Evil men do not understand justice,
But they who long for and seek the Lord understand it fully.
Bible in Basic English
Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.
Julia Smith Translation
Men of evil shall not understand judgment: and they seeking Jehovah shall understand all.
King James 2000
Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely.
Modern King James verseion
Evil men do not understand judgment; but those who seek Jehovah understand all things.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wicked men discern not the thing that is right, but they that seek after the LORD, discuss all things.
NET Bible
Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.
New Heart English Bible
Evil men do not understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
The Emphasized Bible
Wicked men, consider not justice, but, they who seek Yahweh, consider everything.
Webster
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
World English Bible
Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
Youngs Literal Translation
Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
Themes
Seeking God » Ensures » Understanding all things
The judgment of babylon » Who does not understand judgment
Interlinear
Ra`
Biyn
בּין
Biyn
understand, understanding, consider, prudent, perceive, regard, discern, instruct, .
Usage: 169
Mishpat
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 28:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them. 5 Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything. 6 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.
Cross References
Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
John 7:17
If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself.
1 John 2:20
And ye have the unction from the holy one, and ye know all things.
1 John 2:27
and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.
James 1:5
But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
Psalm 25:14
The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them.
Psalm 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Mark 4:10-13
And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him as to the parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14-15
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;