Proverbs 28:24
He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, companion, is he to one who wasteth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
25The ambitious in soul, stirreth up strife, but, he that trusteth in Yahweh, shall be enriched.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with the wise, becometh wise, but, the friend of dullards, becometh foolish.
Proverbs 19:26He that ruineth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son causing shame and reproach.
Proverbs 28:7He that keepeth instruction, is a son with discernment, but, a companion of squanderers, bringeth shame to his father.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →