Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 3:11

11. My son, despise not the chastning of the LORD: neither be weary of his correction .

Either 1. by making light of it, or not being duly affected with it; and so this is one extream opposed to the other in the next clause. Or rather 2. by accounting it an unnecessary, and useless and troublesome thing, but rather esteem it as a priviledg and favour from God, and a benefit to thy self; for such Negatives do oft imply the contrary Affirmatives by a common figure called Meiosis, as Prov. 17. 21. and oft elsewhere. And this sense seems to agree better both with the following Clause, which repeats the same thing with some aggravation, after the manner; and with the reason used to enforce this and the following command, v. 12. which concerns not such as are insensible, but rather such as had too deep a sense of the evil of affliction.

Neither esteem it tedious and intollerable, but endure it with patience and chearfulness.

Marginal references: Job 5. 17. Psa. 94. 12. 13. Heb. 12. 5. Rev. 3. 19.