Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
3The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Proverbs 14:35The king's favour is toward a wise servant; but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:2
Falsehood and Oppression Reproved. 1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and quietness, not only free from jealousies and animosities, but vying in mutual endearments, and obliging to one another, live very comfortably, though they are low in the world, work hard and fare hard, though they have but each of them a morsel, and that a… Read the whole commentary →