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Selected Verse: Proverbs 15:31 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 15:31 |
Strong Concordance |
The ear [0241] that heareth [08085] the reproof [08433] of life [02416] abideth [03885] among [07130] the wise [02450]. |
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King James |
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. |
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] |
(Compare Pro 10:17).
reproof of life--which leads to life.
abideth . . . wise--is numbered among them. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The reproof of life - i. e., The reproof that leads to, or gives life, rather than that which comes from life and its experience. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
31 An ear which heareth the doctrine of life
Keeps itself in the circle of the wise.
As, Pro 6:33, תוכחות מוסר means instructions aiming at discipline, so here תּוכחת חיּים means instructions which have life as their end, i.e., as showing how one may attain unto true life; Hitzig's חכם, for חיים, is a fancy. Is now the meaning this, that the ear which willingly hears and receives such doctrine of life will come to dwell among the wise, i.e., that such an one (for אזן is synecdoche partis pro persona, as Job 29:11) will have his residence among wise men, as being one of them, inter eos sedem firmam habebit iisque annumerabitur (Fl.)? By such a rendering, one is surprised at the harshness of the synecdoche, as well as at the circumstantiality of the expression (cf. Pro 13:20, יחכּם). On the contrary, this corresponds with the thought that one who willingly permits to be said to him what he must do and suffer in order that he may be a partaker of life, on this account remains most gladly in the circle of the wise, and there has his appropriate place. The "passing the night" (לין, cogn. ליל, Syr. Targ. בּוּת, Arab. bât) is also frequently elsewhere the designation of prolonged stay, e.g., Isa 1:21. בּקרב is here different in signification from that it had in Pro 14:23, where it meant "in the heart." In the lxx this proverb is wanting. The other Greek translations have οὖς ἀκοῦον ἐλέγχους χωῆς ἐν μέσῳ σοφῶν αὐλισθήσεται. Similarly the Syr., Targ., Jerome, Venet., and Luther, admitting both renderings, but, since they render in the fut., bringing nearer the idea of prediction (Midrash: זוכה לישׁב בישׁיבת חכמים) than of description of character. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The ear - The man that hearkens to that reproof which leads to life, seeks and delights in the company of the wise. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The ear that heareth the reproof - That receives it gratefully and obeys it. "Advice is for them that will take it," so says one of our own old proverbs; and the meaning here is nearly the same. |
17 He is in the way [0734] of life [02416] that keepeth [08104] instruction [04148]: but he that refuseth [05800] reproof [08433] erreth [08582].
23 In all labour [06089] there is profit [04195]: but the talk [01697] of the lips [08193] tendeth only to penury [04270].
21 How is the faithful [0539] city [07151] become an harlot [02181] ! it was full [04392] of judgment [04941]; righteousness [06664] lodged [03885] in it; but now murderers [07523].
20 He that walketh [01980] with wise [02450] men shall be wise [02449]: but a companion [07462] of fools [03684] shall be destroyed [07321].
11 When the ear [0241] heard [08085] me, then it blessed [0833] me; and when the eye [05869] saw [07200] me, it gave witness [05749] to me:
33 A wound [05061] and dishonour [07036] shall he get [04672]; and his reproach [02781] shall not be wiped away [04229].