Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 58:10I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:
Psalms 112:8That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.
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 →