Proverbs 17:2

Modern English Version

A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brothers.

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He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who no longer knows how to receive a warning.

He who plunders his father and evicts his mother is a shameful and disgraceful son.

The favor of the king is toward a wise servant, but his wrath falls on him who brings shame.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Better is a dry crust with quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of the heart.