25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
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When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear , Deut. 19:20. If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being inveterate, ye…
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