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Proverbs 28:24–27, King James Version
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Proverbs 28:24–27
Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is…
Robbing parents and calling it nothing is a companion of destruction
Whoever robs father or mother and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. A proud heart stirs up strife, but the one who puts his trust in the LORD will be made fat. The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
Family property treated as already yours, with a slogan that it is not sin, is aligned with people who wreck things. It is not a ban on fair inheritance conversations, and it is not a reason for parents to control adult children by money. Made fat is the old image of being well supplied, not a body rule and not a prosperity formula. Trust in the LORD is the alternative to a proud heart that picks fights.
The one who gives to the poor will not lack; the one who hides his eyes will get many a curse
Whoever gives to the poor will not lack, but the one who hides his eyes will have many a curse. Hiding the eyes is the practiced not-seeing of need. Many a curse is the social and divine no that gathers around that refusal. Not lack is the proverb's encouragement to open-handedness, not a bank guarantee and not a reason to shame a giver who later struggles.
Trusting your own heart is treated as folly because the heart is a stakeholder in its own story. Walking wisely is the deliverance. Giving and seeing are how trust in the LORD looks at street level.
How this should shape us
Do not loot your parents and rename it family. Do not trust your inner spin; trust the LORD and walk wisely. Look at the poor in order to give; do not hide your eyes and then wonder why the air around you turns to curse.
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Proverbs 28:24–27, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 28:24-28:27
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NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1171-1175, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 28:24–27
Supports: Whole-book and collection orientation, local commentary, social-setting proposals, and named interpretation limits.
Aitken, ‘Proverbs,’ Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 405-422, subsection covering 28:24–27 and the Solomonic sayings copied by Hezekiah's men outline
Supports: Abstract-level control for the dispute over individual-saying, small-cluster, and collection context; no uninspected detailed claim.
Weeks, ‘Context in the Sayings Collections,’ Early Israelite Wisdom (2000), official abstract and chapter pp. 20-40; methodological question applied to Proverbs 28:24–27
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Exact location: Proverbs 28:24–27, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 28:24-28:27
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
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Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1171-1175, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 28:24–27
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Proverbs
K. T. Aitken
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, 2001
Supports: Whole-book and collection orientation, local commentary, social-setting proposals, and named interpretation limits.
Exact location: Aitken, ‘Proverbs,’ Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 405-422, subsection covering 28:24–27 and the Solomonic sayings copied by Hezekiah's men outline
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Context in the Sayings Collections
Stuart Weeks
Oxford University Press, in Early Israelite Wisdom, 2000
Supports: Abstract-level control for the dispute over individual-saying, small-cluster, and collection context; no uninspected detailed claim.
Exact location: Weeks, ‘Context in the Sayings Collections,’ Early Israelite Wisdom (2000), official abstract and chapter pp. 20-40; methodological question applied to Proverbs 28:24–27
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