<< Proverbs 29:17 >>

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Correct your son, and he will give you peace of mind. He will bring delight to your soul.

King James Bible
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Verse 17

Note, 1. It is a very happy thing when children prove the comfort of their parents. Good children are so; they give them rest, make them easy, and free from the many cares they have had concerning them; yea, they give delight unto their souls. It is a pleasure to parents, which none know but those that are blessed with it, to see the happy fruit of the good education they have given their children, and to have a prospect of their well-doing for both worlds; it gives delight proportionable to the many thoughts of heart that have been concerning them. 2. In order to this, children must be trained up under a strict discipline, and not suffered to do what they will and to go without rebuke when they do amiss. The foolishness bound up in their hearts must by correction be driven out when they are young, or it will break out, to their own and their parents' shame, when they are grown up.

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