Proverbs 28:24
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith: 'It is no transgression', the same is the companion of a destroyer.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
23He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it.
Proverbs 19:26A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.
Proverbs 28:7A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →