Proverbs 29:16
In the multiplying of the wicked transgression multiplies, || And the righteous look on their fall.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
In Context
15A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
17Discipline your son, and he gives you comfort, || Indeed, he gives delights to your soul.
Cross References
Psalms 37:34Look to YHWH, and keep His way, || And He exalts you to possess the land, || In the wicked being cut off—you see!
Psalms 58:10The righteous rejoices that he has seen vengeance, || He washes his steps in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 92:9For behold, Your enemies, O YHWH, || For behold, Your enemies perish, || All workers of iniquity separate themselves.
Psalms 112:8His heart is sustained—he does not fear, || Until he looks on his adversaries.
Revelation 15:4Who may not fear You, O LORD, and glorify Your Name? Because You alone [are] holy, because all the nations will come and worship before You, because Your righteous acts were revealed.”
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 →