Proverbs 17:2

Modern

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

Traditional

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

Literal

A wise servant rules over a son who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share an inheritance.

Latin

Servus sapiens dominabitur filiis stultis, et inter fratres hæreditatem dividet.

Hebrew

English

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

Wisdom is more important than privilege. If children act foolishly, a wise servant will become the leader of the household.

Proverbs 10:5
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
Proverbs 19:26
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 14:35
A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on the shameful.
Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Genesis 24:4–67
…but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”