Proverbs 28:7
Young people who obey the laws are wise [IDM]; parents whose children associate with those who ◄carouse/go to wild parties► are humiliated/disgraced because of what their children do.
Translation for Translators
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
6It is better to be honest even though you are poor than to be dishonest even though you are rich.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, listen to what I say, and consider my instructions to be as valuable as [MET] a treasure.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget what I have taught you. Keep my commands in your inner being,
Proverbs 23:19My son/child, listen carefully to me and become wise, and think about ◄all that you do/your behavior►.
Proverbs 28:24Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother and says “That is not sinful” is as bad as a bandit.
Proverbs 29:15If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned, they become wise; but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do, they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.
Luke 15:30But this son of yours spent all the money he got from what you gave him. He spent it to pay for sleeping with prostitutes! Yes, now he has returned home, but it is not fair that you have told your servants to kill the fat calf and cook it 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 →