Provérbios 19:18

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Castiga a teu filho, enquanto h esperana, mas no te excedas a ponto de mat-lo.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Castiga o teu filho enquanto h esperana, mas no deixes que o teu nimo se exalte at o matar.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Castiga teu filho enquanto h esperana, mas para o matar no alars a tua alma.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Chasten: Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 23:13, Proverbs 23:14, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17, Hebrews 12:7-10

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

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - when they 1 Samuel 3:13 - restrained them not Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:11 - no chastening

Gill's Notes on the 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;

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

Proverbs 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.

t אל המיתו "ad interficiendum cum", Pagninus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "ad occidendum sum", Piscator, Cocceius, Tigurine version, Michaelis, Schultens, Gussetius, p. 534.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 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 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.