Proverbs 17:2
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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
In other translations
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 10:5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
- Proverbs 14:35The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on the shameful.
- Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- Proverbs 19:26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
- Proverbs 11:29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Genesis 24:4-674 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. 7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.4 but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.” 5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” 6 Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there. 7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
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