Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your son, and he gives you comfort, || Indeed, he gives delights to your soul.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
In Context
16In the multiplying of the wicked transgression multiplies, || And the righteous look on their fall.
18A people is made naked without a vision, || And whoever is keeping the Law, O his blessedness!
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, || And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope, || And do not lift up your soul to put him to death.
Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:17
16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. Note, 1. The more sinners there are the more sin there is: When the wicked, being countenanced by authority, grow numerous, and walk on every side, no marvel if transgression increases, as a plague in the country is said to increase when still more and more are infected with it. Transgression grows more impudent and bold, more imperious and threatening, when there are many to keep it in countenance. In the old… Read the whole commentary →