Proverbs 28:4
so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall.
Brenton Septuagint
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 bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and unprofitable rain,
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:14And Samuel said, What then is the + 15:14 Gr. voice.bleating of this flock in my ears, and the sound of the oxen which I hear?
1 Samuel 23:19And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Cæne in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessæmon?
1 Kings 18:21And Eliu drew near to them all: and Eliu said to them, How long wilt ye halt on both + 18:21 Gr. the hams, from γόνν, the knee.feet? if the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.
1 Kings 21:19and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them
2 Kings 3:13And Elisaie said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, + 3:13 Gr. is it that.Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab?
Nehemiah 5:13And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.
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 →