Proverbs 28

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no man pursues.

The wicked man hath such affrights within his own conscience, that he is subject to be terrified with every outward occasion: and when he hath no enemy, is apt to pursue himself.

Proverbs 28:2

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof.

The wickedness of a land is the cause of the manifold changes of the princes and governors thereof, whereby both the people and rulers conspiring in evil are punished.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

A rich oppressor leaves a man poor, but a poor oppressor leaves him nothing.

Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the law praise the wicked.

Those, that do willingly break, and cast off the law of God, do, in so doing, give approbation and encouragement to wickedness.

Proverbs 28:5

They that seek the LORD understand all things.

They, that are true hearted to God, and conscionable in their ways, have so much light from God’s spirit, as that they understand their whole duty to God: they know both what they should do, and how they should perform it.

Proverbs 28:17

A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

A man, that hath imbrued his hand in innocent blood, driven by the horror of his conscience, flies he knows not whither; even into the mouth of the pit: such a man runs into the very jaws of death; neither let any man offer to stay him from that deserved judgment: it is not for any eye to pity him, that hath been so cruel to another.

Proverbs 28:19

He that followeth strange persons shall have poverty enough.

He, that followeth vain and idle persons, shall fall into extreme poverty.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso robbed his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression: the same is a companion of a destroyer.

A rebellious unthrift, that, notwithstanding all good counsel to the contrary, wasteth the goods of his parents, and will not be convinced of his offence, but persists in the maintenance of his lawless courses, is, for the heinousness of his sin, in the next degree to a murtherer.