Proverbs 28:23
He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
In Context
22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:7Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
1 Kings 1:32Then King David said, “Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.
Job 32:22For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
Proverbs 27:5Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
Matthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
2 Peter 3:15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:23
22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. Here again Solomon shows the sin and folly of those that will be rich; they are resolved that they will be so, per fas, per nefas — right or wrong; they will be so with all speed; they are getting hastily an estate. 1. They have no comfort in it: They have an evil eye, that is, they are always grieving at those that have more than they, and always grudging their necessary expenses, because they think the former… Read the whole commentary →