Proverbs 28:7
Whoever keeps the Torah ·Teaching· is a wise son; 2 but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father. 1
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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
8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest 2 gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, 2 and store up my mitzvot ·instructions· within you; 1
Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; 2 but keep my mitzvot ·instructions· in your heart: 1
Proverbs 23:19Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, my son, and be wise, 2 and keep your heart on the right path! 1
Proverbs 28:24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not rebellious breach of relationship.” 2 He is a partner with a destroyer. 1
Proverbs 29:15The rod of correction gives wisdom, 2 but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. 1
Luke 15:30But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed 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 →