For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
All Commentaries on Proverbs 3:12 Go To Proverbs 3
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And as. Septuagint, "but he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth "as St. Paul quotes this passage, Hebrews xii. 6. The verb is now wanting in Hebrew, or ceab; "as a father "may signify "scourgeth, in piel, (Menochius) with i prefixed. (Calmet)