Proverbs 28:23
Whoever is reproving a man finds grace afterward, || More than a flatterer with the tongue.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
In Context
22The man [with] an evil eye [is] troubled for wealth, || And he does not know that want meets him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:7And Nathan says to David, “You [are] the man! Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I anointed you for king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
1 Kings 1:32And King David says, “Call for Zadok the priest, and for Nathan the prophet, and for Benaiah son of Jehoiada for me”; and they come in before the king.
Job 32:22For I have not known to give flattering titles, || My Maker takes me away in a little.”
Proverbs 27:5Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.
Matthew 18:15And if your brother may sin against you, go and show him his fault between you and him alone, if he may hear you, you gained your brother;
2 Peter 3:15and count the long-suffering of our Lord [as] salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul—according to the wisdom given to him—wrote to you,
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 →