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Selected Verse: Proverbs 29:15 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 29:15 |
Strong Concordance |
The rod [07626] and reproof [08433] give [05414] wisdom [02451]: but a child [05288] left [07971] to himself bringeth his mother [0517] to shame [0954]. |
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King James |
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 13:24; Pro 23:13). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Left to himself - The condition of one who has been pampered and indulged. The mother who yields weakly is as guilty of abandoning the child she spoils, as if she cast him forth; and for her evil neglect, there shall fall upon her the righteous punishment of shame and ignominy. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
A proverb with שׁבט, Pro 29:15, is placed next to one with שׁופט, but it begins a group of proverbs regarding discipline in the house and among the people:
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom;
But an undisciplined son is a shame to his mother.
With שׁבט [a rod], which Pro 22:15 also commends as salutary, תּוכחת refers to discipline by means of words, which must accompany bodily discipline, and without them is also necessary; the construction of the first line follows in number and gender the scheme Pro 27:9, Zac 7:7; Ewald, 339c. In the second line the mother is named, whose tender love often degenerates into a fond indulgence; such a darling, such a mother's son, becomes a disgrace to his mother. Our "ausgelassen," by which Hitzig translates משׁלּח, is used of joyfulness unbridled and without self-restraint, and is in the passage before us too feeble a word; שׁלּח is used of animals pasturing at liberty, wandering in freedom (Job 39:5; Isa 16:2); נער משׁלח is accordingly a child who is kept in by no restraint and no punishment, one left to himself, and thus undisciplined (Luther, Gesenius, Fleischer, and others). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Left - Suffered to follow his own will without restraint and chastening. |
13 Withhold [04513] not correction [04148] from the child [05288]: for if thou beatest [05221] him with the rod [07626], he shall not die [04191].
24 He that spareth [02820] his rod [07626] hateth [08130] his son [01121]: but he that loveth [0157] him chasteneth [04148] him betimes [07836].
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering [05074] bird [05775] cast out [07971] of the nest [07064], so the daughters [01323] of Moab [04124] shall be at the fords [04569] of Arnon [0769].
5 Who hath sent out [07971] the wild ass [06501] free [02670]? or who hath loosed [06605] the bands [04147] of the wild ass [06171]?
7 Should ye not hear the words [01697] which the LORD [03068] hath cried [07121] by [03027] the former [07223] prophets [05030], when Jerusalem [03389] was inhabited [03427] and in prosperity [07961], and the cities [05892] thereof round about her [05439], when men inhabited [03427] the south [05045] and the plain [08219]?
9 Ointment [08081] and perfume [07004] rejoice [08055] the heart [03820]: so doth the sweetness [04986] of a man's friend [07453] by hearty [05315] counsel [06098].
15 Foolishness [0200] is bound [07194] in the heart [03820] of a child [05288]; but the rod [07626] of correction [04148] shall drive it far [07368] from him.
15 The rod [07626] and reproof [08433] give [05414] wisdom [02451]: but a child [05288] left [07971] to himself bringeth his mother [0517] to shame [0954].