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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

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

New King James Version
Chasten your son while there is hope, And do not set your heart on his destruction.

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

NASB 1995
Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.

NASB 1977
Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.

Legacy Standard Bible
Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not direct your soul to put him to death.

Amplified Bible
Discipline and teach your son while there is hope, And do not [indulge your anger or resentment by imposing inappropriate punishment nor] desire his destruction.

Christian Standard Bible
Discipline your son while there is hope; don’t set your heart on being the cause of his death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Discipline your son while there is hope; don’t be intent on killing him.

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

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

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Chasten thy son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in thy soul to haughtiness.

Contemporary English Version
Correct your children before it's too late; if you don't punish them, trouble will come their way.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don't, you are helping them destroy themselves.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Chasten thy son, for there is hope; But set not thy heart on his destruction.

Literal Standard Version
Discipline your son, for there is hope, | And do not lift up your soul to put him to death.

Majority Standard Bible
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

New American Bible
Discipline your son, for there is hope; but do not be intent on his death.

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

New Revised Standard Version
Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.

New Heart English Bible
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

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.

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Context
The Man of Integrity
17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender. 18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death. 19A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.…

Cross References
Hebrews 12:7
Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Proverbs 19:19
A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.

Proverbs 23:13
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:14,15
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell…

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(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Discipline
יַסֵּ֣ר (yas·sêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3256: To discipline, chasten, admonish

your son,
בִּ֭נְךָ (bin·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

for in that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

there is
יֵ֣שׁ (yêš)
Adverb
Strong's 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

hope;
תִּקְוָ֑ה (tiq·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8615: A cord, expectancy

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

be party
תִּשָּׂ֥א (tiś·śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

to
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

his death.
הֲ֝מִית֗וֹ (hă·mî·ṯōw)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


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