Proverbs 28:7
Whoever is keeping the Law is an intelligent son, || And a friend of gluttons || Causes his father to blush.
Literal Standard Version
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 [is] the poor walking in his integrity, || Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
8Whoever is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, || Gathers it for one favoring the poor.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,
Proverbs 3:1My son! Do not forget my law, || And let your heart keep my commands,
Proverbs 23:19Hear, my son, and be wise, || And make your heart blessed in the way,
Proverbs 28:24Whoever is robbing his father or his mother, || And is saying, “It is not transgression,” || He is a companion to a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Luke 15:30but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to him the fatted calf.
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 →