Proverbs 29:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Proverbs 29:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 23:13-14
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. …
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. (Compare Pr 29:3, 15; Pr 19:18). give thee rest--peace and quiet (compare Pr 29:9).