Proverbs 29:18
Without a revelation from God, the people go out of control, but those who keep the law are happy.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
In Context
17Discipline your children and they won't give you any worries; they will make you very happy.
Cross References
Exodus 32:25Moses saw the people going completely wild because Aaron had let them, and that this had brought ridicule on them from their enemies.
2 Chronicles 28:19The Lord had brought Judah down because Ahaz, king of Israel, was out of control in Judah, sinning terribly against the Lord.
Psalms 19:11They also warn your servant. By keeping them I'm richly rewarded.
Psalms 119:1Happy are those who do what is right, who follow what the Lord says.
Proverbs 19:16Keep the commandments, and you'll live; despise them and you'll die.
Amos 8:11The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:18
17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Note, 1. It is a very happy thing when children prove the comfort of their parents. Good children are so; they give them rest, make them easy, and free from the many cares they have had concerning them; yea, they give delight unto their souls. It is a pleasure to parents, which none know but those that are blessed with it, to see the happy fruit of the good education they have given their children, and to have a prospect of… Read the whole commentary →