Proverbs 28:7
Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.
Young's Literal Translation
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
6Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
Proverbs 3:1My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
Proverbs 23:19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
Proverbs 28:24Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Luke 15:30but when thy son — this one who did devour thy living with harlots — came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.
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 →