15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15)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…
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