Proverbs 17:2

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

Cross References (7)

  • Proverbs 10:5 (6)

    He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:13 (5)

    Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

  • Proverbs 14:35 (4)

    A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on the shameful.

  • Proverbs 19:26 (4)

    He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Proverbs 29:15 (2)

    A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

  • Proverbs 11:29 (2)

    He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Genesis 24:4–67 (1)

    but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”