Proverbs 9:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs 9:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 15:12
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Topics

Courage Expostulation Fool Reproof Speaking

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-12)

Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment. He who, in the chapter before, showed his grandeur and glory as the Creator of the world, here shows his grace and goodness as the Redeemer of it.…

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

(vv. 8)

7-8. shame--(Compare Pr 3:35). a blot--or, “stain on character.” Both terms denote the evil done by others to one whose faithfulness secures a wise man’s love.