8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
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.
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.…
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