Proverbs 28:24

"Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer."

The background of this, as suggested by Cook,[28] seems to be that very kind of "robbing" one's parents that Jesus condemned in Mark 7:10-13. The fact that some robber of his parents might have the gall to say, "It is no transgression" points squarely at that Corban device invented by the Pharisees. This proverb places that class of robbery in the same category as "Open lawless robbery,"[29] effected by use of a deadly weapon.