Proverbs 28:4
4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Other Translations of Proverbs 28:4
New International Version
4 Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.
English Standard Version
4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
The Message
4 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.
New King James Version
4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them.
New Living Translation
4 To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 28:4
Commentary on Proverbs 28:4
(Read Proverbs 28:4)
Wicked people strengthen one another in wicked ways.