Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:7 - 28:7
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Pro_28:7 Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.
Ver. 7. He that keepeth the law is a wise son.] It is neither good nature, nor good nurture or breeding, that can prove a man to be truly wise, but obedience to God’s statutes. {Deu_4:6} Aiphonsus, king of Spain, surnamed the Wise, was a rank fool and an arrant atheist; so are all the world’s wizards.
But he that is a companion to riotous men.] Or, That feedeth gluttons, whose belly hath no bottom.
‘Ingluvies et tempestas, barathrumque macelli.’
They say the locust is all belly, which is joined to his mouth, and endeth at his tail: such are riotous belly gods. To feed such is to cast away all, and bring an indelible infamy upon the family.