Proverbs 28:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He that rebuketh a man That reproves him for his faults, though he may displease, nay, anger him at the first; afterward shall find more favour than he that flattereth When the person reproved comes calmly to consider the fidelity, good intention, and disinterestedness of the reprover, and the benefit coming to himself by the reproof, and withal the baseness and mischief of flattery, he will entertain a greater regard for such a man, than for one that humours him in every thing, and, with flattering words, countenances and encourages him in those practices which ought to be reprehended.