12A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. …
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12)A scorner is one that not only makes a jest of God and religion, but bids defiance to the methods employed for his conviction and reformation, and, as an evidence of that, 1. He cannot endure the checks of his own conscience, nor will he suffer it to deal plainly with him: He loves not to reprove him (so some read it); he cannot endure to retire into his own heart and commune seriously with that,…
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