Ecclesiastes 28:7

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Dominus adjutor meus et protector meus ; in ipso speravit cor meum, et adjutus sum : et refloruit caro mea, et ex voluntate mea confitebor ei.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Qui custodit legem filius sapiens est;
qui autem comessatores pascit confundit patrem suum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Qui custodit legem, filius sapiens est; qui autem comissatores pascit, confundit patrem suum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

keepeth: Proverbs 2:1-6, Proverbs 3:1-35

but: Proverbs 28:24, Proverbs 19:26, Proverbs 23:19-22, Proverbs 29:3, Proverbs 29:15, Luke 15:13, Luke 15:30, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 Peter 4:4

is a companion of riotous men: or, feedeth gluttons

Reciprocal: Proverbs 23:20 - not Titus 1:6 - not 1 John 2:5 - whoso

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son,.... That observes the law of God; for, though he cannot perfectly keep it, yet he delights in it after the inward man; and with his spirit serves it, from a principle of love, in faith, and with a view to the glory of God, without mercenary and sinister ends. Such a man enjoys peace, and has a reward "in" though not "for" keeping the commands of it; so that it is his wisdom to observe it; and he may be truly called a wise man, Deuteronomy 4:6; Or that observes the law or commandments of his parents, which they enjoin him; see Proverbs 6:20; and particularly the law of God, which requires honour and obedience to be given to parents, and which turns to the account of children; it is well with them, and their days are prolonged on earth, and therefore they are wise that keep it, Ephesians 6:1; and such a wise son makes a glad father, as the contrary brings shame to him, as in the next clause;

but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father: that keeps company with gluttons, and indulges his sensual appetite with them; that "feeds" d such persons and himself, as some render the word; that gives up himself to an epicurean life: he brings himself at last to disgrace and poverty, and so causes shame to his father; who will be charged with neglecting his education, and indulging him in such a luxurious way of living; see Proverbs 10:5.

d רעה "qui pascit", V. L. Pagninus, Piscator, Gejerus, Schultens; "pascitar", Michaelis; "pascens", Montanus.