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Selected Verse: Proverbs 13:1 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 13:1 |
Strong Concordance |
A wise [02450] son [01121] heareth his father's [01] instruction [04148]: but a scorner [03887] heareth [08085] not rebuke [01606]. |
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King James |
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Pro. 13:1-25)
(Compare Pro 6:1-5; Pro 10:1, Pro 10:17). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Heareth - The verb of the second clause is inserted in the first, just as in the next verse that of the first is inserted in the second. Stress is laid upon the obstinacy of the scorner who refuses to hear, not only "instruction," but also the much stronger "rebuke." |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The proverb Pro 12:28 is so sublime, so weighty, that it manifestly forms a period and conclusion. This is confirmed from the following proverb, which begins like Pro 10:1 (cf. 5), and anew stamps the collection as intended for youth:
1 A wise son is his father's correction;
But a scorner listens not to rebuke.
The lxx, which the Syr. follows, translate Ψἱὸς πανουργὸς ὑπήκοος πατρί, whence it is not to be concluded with Lagarde that they read נוסר in the sense of a Ni. tolerativum; they correctly understood the text according to the Jewish rule of interpretation, "that which is wanting is to be supplied from the context." The Targ. had already supplied שׁמע from 1b, and is herein followed by Hitzig, as also by Glassius in the Philologia sacra. But such an ellipse is in the Hebr. style without an example, and would be comprehensible only in passionate, hasty discourse, but in a language in which the representation filius sapiens disciplinam patris audit numbers among the anomalies is not in general possible, and has not even its parallel in Tacitus, Ann. xiii. 56: deesse nobis terra, in qua vivamus - in qua moriemur, non potest, because here the primary idea, which the one expression confirms, the other denies, and besides no particle, such as the ו of this passage before us, stands between them. Bttcher therefore maintains the falling out of the verb, and writes יבּין before בּן; but one says not בין מוסר, but שׁמע מוסר, Pro 1:8; Pro 4:1; Pro 19:27. Should not the clause, as it thus stands, give a sense complete in itself? But מוּסר can hardly, with Schultens and Ewald, be taken as part. Hoph. of יסר: one brought up by his father, for the usage of the language knows מוסר only as part. Hoph. of סוּר. Thus, as Jerome and the Venet. translate: a wise son is the correction of his father, i.e., the product of the same, as also Fleischer explains, "Attribution of the cause, the ground, as elsewhere of the effect." But we call that which one has trained (vegetable or animal) his Zucht (= παιδεία in the sense of παίδευμα). To the wise son (Pro 10:1) who is indebted to the מוסר אב (Pro 4:1), stands opposed the לץ (vid., Pro 1:22), the mocker at religion and virtue, who has no ear for גּערה, strong and stern words which awaken in him a wholesome fear (cf. Pro 17:10, Jde 1:23 : ἐν φόβῳ). |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
A wise son heareth his father's instruction - The child that has had a proper nurturing, will profit by his father's counsels; but the child that is permitted to fulfill its own will and have its own way, will jest at the reproofs of its parents. |
17 He is in the way [0734] of life [02416] that keepeth [08104] instruction [04148]: but he that refuseth [05800] reproof [08433] erreth [08582].
1 The proverbs [04912] of Solomon [08010]. A wise [02450] son [01121] maketh a glad [08055] father [01]: but a foolish [03684] son [01121] is the heaviness [08424] of his mother [0517].
1 My son [01121], if thou be surety [06148] for thy friend [07453], if thou hast stricken [08628] thy hand [03709] with a stranger [02114],
2 Thou art snared [03369] with the words [0561] of thy mouth [06310], thou art taken [03920] with the words [0561] of thy mouth [06310].
3 Do [06213] this now [0645], my son [01121], and deliver [05337] thyself, when thou art come [0935] into the hand [03709] of thy friend [07453]; go [03212], humble [07511] thyself, and make sure[07292] thy friend [07453].
4 Give [05414] not sleep [08142] to thine eyes [05869], nor slumber [08572] to thine eyelids [06079].
5 Deliver [05337] thyself as a roe [06643] from the hand [03027] of the hunter, and as a bird [06833] from the hand [03027] of the fowler [03353].
23 And [1161] others [3739] save [4982] with [1722] fear [5401], pulling [726] them out of [1537] the fire [4442]; hating [3404] even [2532] the garment [5509] spotted [4695] by [575] the flesh [4561].
10 A reproof [01606] entereth [05181] more into a wise man [0995] than an hundred [03967] stripes [05221] into a fool [03684].
22 How long, ye simple ones [06612], will ye love [0157] simplicity [06612]? and the scorners [03887] delight [02530] in their scorning [03944], and fools [03684] hate [08130] knowledge [01847]?
1 Hear [08085], ye children [01121], the instruction [04148] of a father [01], and attend [07181] to know [03045] understanding [0998].
1 The proverbs [04912] of Solomon [08010]. A wise [02450] son [01121] maketh a glad [08055] father [01]: but a foolish [03684] son [01121] is the heaviness [08424] of his mother [0517].
27 Cease [02308], my son [01121], to hear [08085] the instruction [04148] that causeth to err [07686] from the words [0561] of knowledge [01847].
1 Hear [08085], ye children [01121], the instruction [04148] of a father [01], and attend [07181] to know [03045] understanding [0998].
8 My son [01121], hear [08085] the instruction [04148] of thy father [01], and forsake [05203] not the law [08451] of thy mother [0517]:
1 The proverbs [04912] of Solomon [08010]. A wise [02450] son [01121] maketh a glad [08055] father [01]: but a foolish [03684] son [01121] is the heaviness [08424] of his mother [0517].
28 In the way [0734] of righteousness [06666] is life [02416]; and in the pathway [05410] [01870] thereof there is no death [04194].