Proverbs 17:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, And shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall share in the inheritance among the brothers.

American Standard Version (1901)

² A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

Common English Bible

² An insightful servant rules over a disgraceful son and will divide an inheritance with the brothers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and he will divide the inheritance among brothers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.

Proverbs 17:2 Références croisées

Proverbs 10:5

A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

Proverbs 11:29

Those who trouble their households will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

Proverbs 14:35

A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Proverbs 19:26

Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.