Proverbs 28:7
A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Berean Standard Bible
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 a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Proverbs 23:19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
Proverbs 28:24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Luke 15:30But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened 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 →