Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
In Context
17Instruct thy son, and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul.
Cross References
Psalms 37:34Expect the Lord and keep his way : and he will exalt thee to inherit the land : when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.
Psalms 58:10Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
Psalms 92:9but thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.
Psalms 112:8his heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.
Revelation 15:4Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come, and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:16
Parental Discipline. 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Parents, in educating their children, must consider, 1. The benefit of due correction. They must not only tell their children what is good and evil, but they must chide them, and correct them too, if need be, when they either neglect that which is good or do that which is evil. If a reproof will serve without the rod, it is well, but the rod must never be used without a rational and grave reproof; and… Read the whole commentary →