Proverbs 28:7
He that keepeth the law, is a wise son; but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee (or and hidest my commands with thee);
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget thou not my law; and thine heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 23:19My son, hear thou, and be wise, and (ad)dress thy soul in the way (or and direct thy soul to the right way).
Proverbs 28:24He that withdraweth anything from his father and from his mother, and saith that this is no sin, is partner of a man-queller (or is the partner of, or no better than, a murderer).
Proverbs 29:15A rod and chastising shall give wisdom; but a child, that is left to his own will, shameth his mother.
Luke 15:30But after that this thy son, that hath devoured his substance with whores, came, thou hast slain to him a fat calf [or a fatted calf], (or thou hast killed a fatted 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 →