Proverbs 28:7
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son. But whoever feeds gluttons brings shame to his father.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
In Context
6Better is the pauper walking in his simplicity, than the rich walking in ways of depravity.
8Whoever piles up riches by usury and profit gathers them for him who will give freely to the poor.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.
Proverbs 23:19Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.
Proverbs 28:24Whoever takes away anything from his father or mother, and who says, “This is not a sin,” is the associate of a murderer.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.
Luke 15:30Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.’
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →