Proverbs 28:4
They who forsake the law praise the wicked; But they who keep the law contend with them.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
In Context
3A poor man who oppresseth the needy Is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
5Wicked men understand not equity; But they who seek the LORD understand all things.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:4
3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing such good offices as they might do one to another, but imposing upon and over-reaching one another. Those who know by experience the miseries of poverty should be compassionate to those who suffer the like, but they are inexcusably barbarous if they be injurious to them. 2. How imperious and griping those commonly are who, being indigent… Read the whole commentary →