Proverbs 28:5 (BSB)

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:5: Note, I. As the prevalency of men's lusts is owing to the darkness of their understandings, so the darkness of their understandings is very much owing to the dominion of their lusts: Men understand not judgment, discern not between truth and falsehood, right and wrong; they understand not the law of God as the rule either of their duty or of their doom; and, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:5: Evil men understand not judgment,.... Or, "men of wickedness" (b); that are under the governing power of it; who are given up and give up themselves unto it; who, like Ahab, sell themselves to work wickedness: these know not what is just and right between man and man, at least not to do it; they know it not practically; they are wise to do evil...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:5: (Compare Joh 7:17). Ignorance of moral truth is due to unwillingness to know it.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:5: Pro 28:5 A similar antithetic distich: Wicked men understand not what is right; But they who seek Jahve understand all. Regarding the gen. expression אנשׁי־רע, vid., under Pro 2:14. He who makes wickedness his element, falls into the confusion of the moral conception; but he whose end is the one living God, gains from that, in every situation of life, even amid the greatest difficulties...