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Text -- Proverbs 19:18 (NET)

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19:18 Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Parents | Children | CRY, CRYING | more
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Wesley: Pro 19:18 - -- Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him incorrigible.

Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him incorrigible.

Wesley: Pro 19:18 - -- Forbear not to give him due and necessary correction.

Forbear not to give him due and necessary correction.

JFB: Pro 19:18 - -- (Compare Pro 13:24; Pro 23:13).

(Compare Pro 13:24; Pro 23:13).

JFB: Pro 19:18 - -- Literally, "do not lift up thy soul" (Psa 24:4; Psa 25:1), that is, do not desire to his death; a caution to passionate parents against angry chastise...

Literally, "do not lift up thy soul" (Psa 24:4; Psa 25:1), that is, do not desire to his death; a caution to passionate parents against angry chastisement.

Clarke: Pro 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 ...

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 that the child may be caused to cry, when the correction may be healthful to his soul, than that the parent should cry afterwards, when the child is grown to man’ s estate, and his evil habits are sealed for life.

TSK: Pro 19:18 - -- Chasten : Pro 13:24, Pro 22:15, Pro 23:13, Pro 23:14, Pro 29:15, Pro 29:17; Heb 12:7-10 for his crying : or, to his destruction, or, to cause him to d...

Chasten : Pro 13:24, Pro 22:15, Pro 23:13, Pro 23:14, Pro 29:15, Pro 29:17; Heb 12:7-10

for his crying : or, to his destruction, or, to cause him to die

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 19:18 - -- 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 h...

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 act of chastisement (compare Eph 6:4; Col 3:21); or urge that a false clemency is a real cruelty. The latter sense is preferable. The father is warned that to forbear from chastising is virtually to expose the son who needs it to a far worse penalty.

Poole: Pro 19:18 - -- 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 gi...

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 which oft stirs up a foolish and pernicious pity in parents towards them. This word, with some small difference in the points, is used in this sense Isa 24:11 . Or, as it is in the margin, to his destruction , intimating that this is a cruel pity, and a likely way to expose him to that death threatened to stubborn sons, Deu 21:18,21 . But this clause is, and may be, rendered otherwise, yet or but do not lift up thy soul (which signifies a vehement desire, Deu 24:15 Psa 25:1 Jer 44:14 ; let not thy passion or eager desire of chastening him transport thee so far as) to cause him to die , i.e. use moderation in this work.

Haydock: Pro 19:18 - -- Killing. Protestants, "crying;" or by his complaint be not deterred. (Haydock) --- Chaldean agrees with us. The law permitted parents to sell the...

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 declared them disobedient, (Deuteronomy xxi. 18.; Calmet) and riotous, ver. 20. Timely chastisement may prevent such extremities. (Haydock) ---

St. Paul dissuades unnecessary severity, Colossians iii. 21.

Gill: Pro 19:18 - -- 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 i...

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 under parental government; and before habits in sin are grown strong, and the case become desperate, and he is hardened, and proof against all instruction and discipline;

and let not thy soul spare for his crying; the noise he makes, the tears he sheds, the entreaties he uses to keep off the rod; let not a foolish pity and tenderness prevail to lay it aside on that account the consequence of which may be bad to parent and child; see Pro 13:24. The Targum is,

"but unto his death do not lift up thy soul;''

or to the slaying of him t, as the Vulgate Latin version; and this sense Jarchi gives into: and then the meaning is, that though parents should be careful to give due correction to their children, so long as there is hope of doing them good, yet not in a brutal and barbarous manner, to the endangering of their lives: as some parents are too indolent, mild, and gentle, as Eli was; others are too wrathful and furious and use no moderation in their corrections, but unmercifully beat their children; such extremes ought to be avoided. Gersom interprets the word of crying, as we do.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 19:18 The Hiphil infinitive construct הֲמִיתוֹ (hamito) means “taking it to heart” in this line....

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 19:18 - --When parents keep under foolish tenderness, they do their best to render children a comfort to them, and happy in themselves.

Matthew Henry: Pro 19:18 - -- Parents are here cautioned against a foolish indulgence of their children that are untoward and viciously inclined, and that discover such an ill te...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 19:17-21 - -- These verses we take together. But we have no other reason for making a pause at Pro 19:21, than that Pro 19:22 is analogous to Pro 19:17, and thus ...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 19:1--22:17 - --4. Further advice for pleasing God 19:1-22:16 As was true in the chapter 10-15 section, this one (16:1-22:16) also becomes more difficult to outline a...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 19 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 19 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 19

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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