Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
3As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:5He that gathered in the harvest is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.
Proverbs 14:35A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will 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 →