Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise wicked people, 1 but those who keep the law fight against them. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 person who oppresses other poor people 1 is like a beating rain that leaves no food. 1
5Evil men do not understand justice, 1 but those who seek Yahweh understand everything. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:14Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”
1 Samuel 23:19Then Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
1 Kings 18:21Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you keep changing your mind? If Yahweh is God, follow him. But if Baal is God, then follow him.” Yet the people did not answer him a word.
1 Kings 21:19You must speak to him and say that Yahweh says, 'Have you killed and also taken possession?' Then you will tell him that Yahweh says, 'In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick your blood, yes, your blood.'”
2 Kings 3:13Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and mother.” So the king of Israel said to him, “No, because Yahweh has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab.”
Nehemiah 5:13I shook out the fold of my robe and said, “So may God shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep his promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised Yahweh and the people did as they had promised.
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 →