18 One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.
19 Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
20 The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.
21 To show partiality is not good- yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.
22 The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.
23 Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
24 Anyone who robs father or mother and says, "That is no crime," is partner to a thug.
25 The greedy person stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
26 Those who trust in their own wits are fools; but those who walk in wisdom come through safely.
27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.
28 When the wicked prevail, people go into hiding; but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 28:18-28
Commentary on Proverbs 28:18
(Read Proverbs 28:18)
Uprightness will give men holy security in the worst times; but the false and dishonest are never safe.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:19
(Read Proverbs 28:19)
Those who are diligent, take the way to live comfortably.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:20
(Read Proverbs 28:20)
The true way to be happy, is to be holy and honest; not to raise an estate suddenly, without regard to right or wrong.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:21
(Read Proverbs 28:21)
Judgment is perverted, when any thing but pure right is considered.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:22
(Read Proverbs 28:22)
He that hastens to be rich, never seriously thinks how quickly God may take his wealth from him, and leave him in poverty.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:23
(Read Proverbs 28:23)
Upon reflection, most will have a better opinion of a faithful reprover than of a soothing flatterer.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:24
(Read Proverbs 28:24)
Here is the wickedness of those who think it no sin to rob their parents, by wheedling them or threatening them, or by wasting what they have, and running into debt.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:25
(Read Proverbs 28:25)
Those make themselves always easy, that live in continual dependence upon God and his grace, and live by faith.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:26
(Read Proverbs 28:26)
A fool trusts to his own strength, merit, and righteousness. And trusts to his own heart, which is not only deceitful above all things, but which has often deceived him.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:27
(Read Proverbs 28:27)
A selfish man not only will not look out for objects of compassion, but will look off from those that call for his attention.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:28
(Read Proverbs 28:28)
When power is put into the hands of the wicked, wise men decline public business. If the reader will go diligently over this and the other chapters, in many places where at first he may suppose there is least of Christ, still he will find what will lead to him.