Proverbs 17:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 17:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Proverbs 9:8-9
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. …
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10)

Note, 1. A word is enough to the wise. A gentle reproof will enter not only into the head, but into the heart of a wise man, so as to have a strong influence upon him; for, if but a hint be given to conscience, let it alone to carry it on and prosecute it. 2. Stripes are not enough for a fool, to make him sensible of his errors, that he may repent of them, and be more cautious for the future. He t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. Reproof more affects the wise than severe scourging, fools.