Proverbs 17:2
Good News Translation
A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.

New Revised Standard Version
A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Contemporary English Version
A wise slave will be placed in charge of a no-good child, and that slave will be given the same inheritance that each child receives.

New American Bible
A wise servant will rule over an unworthy son, and will share the inheritance of the children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.

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Proverbs 11:29 The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.

Proverbs 14:35 A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.

Genesis 24:4 But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

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Proverbs 10:5 The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 19:26 He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.

Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife. 2A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.3As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.…
Cross References
Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Proverbs 17:3
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 17:1
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