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Proverbs 28:5

Proverbs 28:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Evil men understand not judgment; or, what is right. An evil man's moral conception is perverted, he cannot distinguish between right and wrong; the light that was in him has become darkness (comp. ).

Many men, by giving themselves over to wickedness, awe judicially blinded, according to :89, 40. They who seek the Lord understand all things. These who do God's will, seeking him in prayer, know what is morally right is every circumstance, have a right judgment in all things (comp.

; 1 Corinthians 2:15). So 1 , "Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things;" and our Lord has (declared, "If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine" ().

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