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.)
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Proverbs 28:23
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.