Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
In Context
3A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:14And Samuel said, What then means this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Kings 18:21And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, How long do ye go limping between the two sides? If LORD be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
1 Kings 21:19And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, eve
2 Kings 3:13And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No, for LORD has called these three kings together t
Nehemiah 5:13Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised LORD. And th
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:4
3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing such good offices as they might do one to another, but imposing upon and over-reaching one another. Those who know by experience the miseries of poverty should be compassionate to those who suffer the like, but they are inexcusably barbarous if they be injurious to them. 2. How imperious and griping those commonly are who, being indigent… Read the whole commentary →