Proverbs 28:23
New International Version
Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor rather than one who has a flattering tongue.

New Living Translation
In the end, people appreciate honest criticism far more than flattery.

English Standard Version
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Berean Standard Bible
He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

King James Bible
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

New King James Version
He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward Than he who flatters with the tongue.

New American Standard Bible
One who rebukes a person will afterward find more favor Than one who flatters with the tongue.

NASB 1995
He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.

NASB 1977
He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Legacy Standard Bible
He who reproves a man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Amplified Bible
He who [appropriately] reprimands a [wise] man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Christian Standard Bible
One who rebukes a person will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One who rebukes a person will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

American Standard Version
He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He that rebukes a son of man finds more favor than he that is duplicitous with his tongue.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that reproves a man's ways shall have more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.

Contemporary English Version
Honest correction is appreciated more than flattery.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

English Revised Version
He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whoever criticizes people will be more highly regarded in the future than the one who flatters with his tongue.

Good News Translation
Correct someone, and afterward he will appreciate it more than flattery.

International Standard Version
Whoever rebukes a man will later on find more favor than someone who flatters with his words.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Literal Standard Version
Whoever is reproving a man finds grace afterward, | More than a flatterer with the tongue.

Majority Standard Bible
He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

New American Bible
Whoever rebukes another wins more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

NET Bible
The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

New Heart English Bible
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that rebuketh a man afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.

World English Bible
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

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Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him. 23He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue. 24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.…

Cross References
Proverbs 24:25
but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.

Proverbs 27:5
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

Proverbs 27:6
The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.


Treasury of Scripture

He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.

Proverbs 27:5,6
Open rebuke is better than secret love…

2 Samuel 12:7
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

1 Kings 1:23,32-40
And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground…

and

Genesis 13:10-13
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar…

Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Job 20:18-22
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein

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Proverbs 28
1. general observations of impiety and integrity














(23) He that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find more favour . . .--i.e., when the man reproved comes to his senses, and finds how true a friend the reprover has been to him. Or, the words may perhaps mean, He that rebuketh a man (that is going) backwards. (Compare Jeremiah 7:24, and James 5:20.)

Verse 23. - He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour. The word rendered "afterwards" (postea, Vulgate), אַחֲרַי (acharai), creates a difficulty. The suffix cannot be that of the first person singular, which would give no sense; hence most interpreters see in it a peculiar adverb attached to the following verb, "shall afterwards find." Delitzsch. Lowenstein, end Nowack take it for a noun with the termination -ai, and translate, "a man that goeth backward," "a backslider" (as Jeremiah 7:24). Hence the translation will run, "He who reproveth a backsliding man," i.e. one whom he sees to be turning away from God and duty. He shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue (comp. Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 29:5). A faithful counsellor, who tells a man his faults, brings them home to his conscience, and checks him in his downward course, will be seen to be a true friend, and will be loved and respected both by the one whom he has warned and advised and by all who are well disposed. James 5:19, "If any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him. let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and stroll hide a multitude of sins." "Laudat adulator, sed non est verus amator." The flatterer says only what is agreeable to the man whom he flatters, and thus makes him conceited and selfish and unable to see himself as he really is: the true friend says harsh things, but they are wholesome and tend to spiritual profit, and show more real affection than all the soft words of the fawning parasite. Septuagint, "He that reproveth a man's ways shall have more thanks than he who flattereth with the tongue."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He who rebukes
מ֘וֹכִ֤יחַ (mō·w·ḵî·aḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

a man
אָדָ֣ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

will later
אַ֭חֲרַי (’a·ḥă·ray)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

find
יִמְצָ֑א (yim·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

more favor
חֵ֣ן (ḥên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2580: Graciousness, subjective, objective

than one who flatters
מִֽמַּחֲלִ֥יק (mim·ma·ḥă·lîq)
Preposition-m | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

with his tongue.
לָשֽׁוֹן׃ (lā·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue


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