Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for there is hope, || And do not lift up your soul to put him to death.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
In Context
17Whoever is lending [to] YHWH is favoring the poor, || And He repays his deed to him.
19A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, || For if you deliver, yet again you add.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24Whoever is sparing his rod is hating his son, || And whoever is loving him has hurried his discipline.
Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Hebrews 12:7if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:18
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord ; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things:—1. Compassion, which is the inward principle of charity in the heart; it is to have pity on the poor. Those that have not a penny for the poor, yet may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy; and, if a man give all his goods to feed the poor and have not this charity in his heart, it is nothing, 1 Cor. xiii. 3 . We must draw… Read the whole commentary →