Proverbs 28:5 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.

WEB

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

YLT

Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

DBT

Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.

About this book

Old Testament

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

17 verses on the floor

Isaiah 44:18
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
1 John 2:20
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Psalms 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H995170× in canon H1245225× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 28:5JAS 1:5 PRO 2:3-6
PRO 28:51JN 2:27 JHN 14:26
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 28:5JAS 1:5 JHN 15:7
PRO 28:5JAS 1:5 JER 29:12-13
PRO 28:5JAS 1:5 PRO 3:5-7
PRO 28:51JN 2:27 JER 31:33-34
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 28:5JAS 1:5 1JN 5:14-15
PRO 28:51JN 2:27 1JN 2:20-21

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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