Proverbs 29:18
When prophecy fails, the people will be scattered. Yet truly, whoever guards the law is blessed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
In Context
17Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.
Cross References
Exodus 32:25Therefore, Moses, seeing that the people were naked (for Aaron had stripped them because of the disgrace of their sordidness, and he had set them naked among their enemies),
2 Chronicles 28:19For the Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz, the king of Judah, since he had stripped it of help, and had shown contempt for the Lord.
Psalms 119:1A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me.
Proverbs 19:16Whoever guards a commandment guards his own soul. But whoever neglects his own way will die.
Amos 8:11Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:18
17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Note, 1. It is a very happy thing when children prove the comfort of their parents. Good children are so; they give them rest, make them easy, and free from the many cares they have had concerning them; yea, they give delight unto their souls. It is a pleasure to parents, which none know but those that are blessed with it, to see the happy fruit of the good education they have given their children, and to have a prospect of… Read the whole commentary →