10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. …
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
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…
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