Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 18 Holy Bible
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy heart on his destruction.
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Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
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Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.
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Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
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Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.
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Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Chasten thy son while there is hope; or. seeing that there is hope. Being still young and impressionable, and not confirmed in bad habits, he may be reformed by judicious chastisement. The same expression occurs in Job 11:18; Jeremiah 31:16. "For so he shall be well hoped of" (εὔελπις), Septuagint (comp. Proverbs 23:13). And let not thy soul spare for his crying. "It is better," says a German apothegm, "that the child weep than the father." But the rendering of the Authorized Version is not well established, and this second clause is intended to inculcate moderation in punishment. Vulgate, Ad interfectionem autem ejus ne ponas animam tuam; Revised Version. Set not thine heart on his destruction. Chastise him duty and sufficiently, but not so heavily as to occasion his death, which a father had no right to do. The Law enjoined the parents who had an incorrigibly bad son to bring him before the judge or the eiders, who alone had the power of life and death, and might in certain cases order the offender to be stoned (Deuteronomy 21:18, etc.). Christianity recommended moderation in punishment (see Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21). Septuagint, "Be not excited in the mind to despiteful treatment (εἰς ὕβριν);" i.e. be not led away by passion to unseemly acts or words, but reprove with gentleness, while you are firm and uncompromising in denouncing evil. This is much the same advice as that given by the apostle in the passages just cited.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) 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; Colossians 3:21.) It may also signify "do not let him perish for want of chastisement," as Proverbs 23:13 is also explained.
