SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:18
¶ Castiga a tu hijo en tanto que hay esperanza; mas no se excite tu alma para destruirlo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 19:18
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. Chasten thy son while there is hope , etc.] 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 23:13,14). The Targum is, “but unto his death do not lift up thy soul;” or to the slaying of him f549 , 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18 - When parents keep under foolish tenderness, they do their best to render children a comfort to them, and happy in themselves.
Original Hebrew
יסר 3256 בנך 1121 כי 3588 ישׁ 3426 תקוה 8615 ואל 413 המיתו 4191 אל 408 תשׂא 5375 נפשׁך׃ 5315
