2A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2)Note, 1. True merit does not go by dignity. All agree that the son in the family is more worthy than the servant (John 8:35), and yet sometimes it so happens that the servant is wise, and a blessing and credit to the family, when the son is a fool, and a burden and shame to the family. Eliezer of Damascus, though Abram could not bear to think that he should be his heir, was a stay to the family, w…
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