Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 19:18
RV '.. seeing there is hope, And set not thy heart on his destruction.' Not to discipline is to destroy.
RV '.. seeing there is hope, And set not thy heart on his destruction.' Not to discipline is to destroy.
Verse Proverbs 19:18. _LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING._] This is a hard precept for a _parent_. Nothing affects the heart of a parent so much as a child's _cries_ and _tears_. But it is better...
WHILE THERE IS HOPE - While he is still young, and capable of being reformed. CRYING - Better, as in the margin, Do not set thy soul on his destruction; words which either counsel forbearance in the a...
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
CHASTEN. Correct, or discipline. LET NOT, &C. This is not. caution against excess of severity, but against. cruel kindness which ends in death, by withholding seasonable correction....
_while_ R.V. _seeing:_i.e. for if done now it will not be too late. _let not thy soul spare for his crying_ Rather, SET NOT THY HEART ON HIS DESTRUCTION, R.V.; lit. ON CAUSING HIM TO DIE. This might m...
AND LET NOT, &C.— _But suffer not thyself to be transported to cause him to die._ The LXX read, _Chasten thy son, so shall he be hopeful; but be not raised in thy wrath to the provocation of him._ See...
TEXT Proverbs 19:11-20 11. The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 12. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as...
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. CHASTEN THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE - of his being reformed, before that he becomes hardened in sin. Trees, while yo...
19:18 him. (e-15) Others, 'and regard not his crying.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 19 V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest. He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
Perhaps you have an evil son. As he becomes older, his behaviour may become worse. Perhaps he will die when a judge punishes him. But we know that God will punish that son. Perhaps you can still resc...
AND LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING. — Or, _but set not thy soul on his destruction._ Do not go so far as to kill him in thy zeal for his good, or despair of his amendment. (Comp. Ephesians 6:4;...
יַסֵּ֣ר בִּ֭נְךָ כִּי ־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְ אֶל
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
_Killing. Protestants, "crying;" or by his complaint be not deterred. (Haydock) --- Chaldean agrees with us. The law permitted parents to sell their children, and to have them stoned to death, if they...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
CHASTEN THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE,.... Of guiding and keeping him in the right way, as long as corrections are or can be hoped to be of use; while in a state of infancy, childhood, and youth; while...
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Ver. 18. _Chasten thy son while there is hope._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 13:24 _"_...
_Chasten thy son while there is hope_ Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him hard-hearted and incorrigible; _and let not thy soul spare for his crying_ Forbear not to give him due and...
V. 18. CHASTEN THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE, correcting him, if necessary, by corporal punishment, AND LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING, literally, "and to his death do not lift up thy soul"; wisd...
FOR HIS CRYING: Or, to his destruction Or, to cause him to die...
WHILE THERE IS HOPE; before custom in sin, and thy indulgence, hath made him hard-hearted and incorrigible. LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE, forbear not to give him due and necessary correction, FOR HIS CRYING...
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten H3256 (H8761) son H1121 is H3426 hope H8615 set H5375 (H8799) heart H5315 destruction...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:18. LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING. The translations of most expositors here differ widely from the authorised version. Grotius, Maurer, Delitzsch, Zöckler, etc., r...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:13. CALAMITY. The word so translated is in the plural form, so as to express the continuance of the trouble. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 19:18_ DOM
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
Hebrews 12:7; Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 22:15; Proverbs 23:13;...
While — Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him incorrigible. Let not — Forbear not to give him due and necessary correction....