Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
In Context
14The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:6And his father had not grieved him all his life in saying: 'Why hast thou done so?' and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
Proverbs 10:5A wise son gathereth in summer; but a son that doeth shamefully sleepeth in harvest.
Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; and the father of a churl hath no joy.
Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 29:21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become master at the last.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:15
14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever. Here is, 1. The duty of magistrates, and that is, to judge faithfully between man and man, and to determine all causes brought before them, according to truth and equity, particularly to take care of the poor, not to countenance them in an unjust cause for the sake of their poverty ( Exod. xxiii. 3 ), but to see that their poverty do not turn to their prejudice if they have a just cause. The rich will look to themselves, but… Read the whole commentary →