Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
1Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
Proverbs 14:35A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on the shameful.
Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
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 →