Verse 28

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

Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
  • Job 20:12-13 : 12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; 13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 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 Kgs 21:13 : 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.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
  • Prov 15:14 : 14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
  • Isa 28:14-18 : 14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem: 15 Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue: 16 For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way. 17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters. 18 And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
  • Luke 18:2-4 : 2 Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man: 3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong. 4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing. 12 And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin, 13 And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law: