Proverbs 28:4-5
Proverbs 28:4-5 The Message (MSG)
If you desert God’s law, you’re free to embrace depravity; if you love God’s law, you fight for it tooth and nail. Justice makes no sense to the evilminded; those who seek GOD know it inside and out.
Proverbs 28:4-5 King James Version (KJV)
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: But such as keep the law contend with them. Evil men understand not judgment: But they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Proverbs 28:4-5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them. Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the LORD understand all things.
Proverbs 28:4-5 New Century Version (NCV)
Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked, but those who obey what they have been taught are against them. Evil people do not understand justice, but those who follow the LORD understand it completely.
Proverbs 28:4-5 American Standard Version (ASV)
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them. Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.
Proverbs 28:4-5 New International Version (NIV)
Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them. Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
Proverbs 28:4-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them. Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the LORD understand all.
Proverbs 28:4-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Those who set aside the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, But those who keep the law [of God and man] struggle with them. [Prov 29:18] Evil men do not understand justice, But they who long for and seek the LORD understand it fully. [John 7:17; 1 Cor 2:15; 1 John 2:20, 27]
Proverbs 28:4-5 New Living Translation (NLT)
To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them. Evil people don’t understand justice, but those who follow the LORD understand completely.
Proverbs 28:4-5 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Those who turn their backs on what they know is right will no longer be able to tell right from wrong. But those who love the truth strengthen their souls. Justice never makes sense to men devoted to darkness, but those tenderly devoted to the Lord can understand justice perfectly.