Proverbs 29:17
Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
Updated King James 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
16When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall.
18Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 19:18Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall 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 →