Proverbs 28:7
A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonours his father.
Brenton Septuagint
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
6A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.
8He that increases his wealth by usuries and unjust gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my laws; but let thine heart keep my words:
Proverbs 23:19Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.
Proverbs 28:24+ 28:24 Mark 7. 11.He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.
Proverbs 29:15Stripes and reproofs give wisdom: but an erring child disgraces his parents.
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 →