Proverbs 28:7
Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.
Darby Translation
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
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
Proverbs 23:19Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Luke 15:30but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
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 →