11When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11)This we had before (Prov. 19:25), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the in…
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