Proverbs 19:18
◄  Proverbs 19:18  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise you will ruin their lives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Discipline your son while there is hope; don't be intent on killing him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Discipline your son while there is still hope— but don't set your heart on his destruction.

NET Bible (©2006)
Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Chasten your son because there is hope and do not cast out your soul to his shame.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Discipline your son while there is still hope. Do not be the one responsible for his death.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

American King James Version
Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

American Standard Version
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy heart on his destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Darby Bible Translation
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.

English Revised Version
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; and set not thy heart on his destruction.

Webster's Bible Translation
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

World English Bible
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

Young's Literal Translation
Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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;

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

This proverb brings to view once more the pedagogic character of this Older Book of Proverbs:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

While there is hope - While he is still young, and capable of being reformed.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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.

Geneva Study Bible

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Wesley's Notes

19:18 While - Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him incorrigible. Let not - Forbear not to give him due and necessary correction.

King James Translators' Notes

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. (Compare Pr 13:24; 23:13).

let not … spare-literally, "do not lift up thy soul" (Ps 24:4; 25:1), that is, do not desire to his death; a caution to passionate parents against angry chastisement.

Proverbs 19:18 Parallel Commentaries
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Better is the Poor Man with Integrity
…17He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again. 18Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying. 19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again. …

Hebrews 12:7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
Proverbs 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Proverbs 19:19 A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty; rescue them, and you will have to do it again.
Proverbs 23:13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
Proverbs 29:15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.
Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.