Proverbs 19:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.

Cross References

1 Kings 16:27

Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 21:10

And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

1 Kings 21:13

And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

Job 15:16

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

Psalm 10:11

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Proverbs 16:27

A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

Proverbs 19:27

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

Hosea 4:8

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.