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Selected Verse: Proverbs 9:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 9:7 |
Strong Concordance |
He that reproveth [03256] a scorner [03887] getteth [03947] to himself shame [07036]: and he that rebuketh [03198] a wicked [07563] man getteth himself a blot [03971]. |
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King James |
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. |
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] |
shame--(Compare Pro 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| These verses seem somewhat to interrupt the continuity of the invitation which Wisdom utters. The order of thought is, however, this: "I speak to you, the simple, the open ones, for you have yet ears to hear: but from the scorner or evil doer, as such, I turn away." The words are illustrated by Mat 13:11 ff. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
In what now follows the discourse of Wisdom is continued; wherefore she directs her invitation to the simple, i.e., those who have not yet decided, and are perhaps susceptible of that which is better:
7 "He who correcteth a scorner draweth upon himself insult;
And he who communicateth instruction to a scorner, it is a dishonour to him.
8 Instruct not a scorner, lest he hate thee;
Give instruction to the wise, so he will love thee.
9 Give to the wise, and he becomes yet wiser;
Give knowledge to the upright, and he gains in knowledge."
Zckler thinks that herewith the reason for the summons to the "simple" to forsake the fellowship of men of their own sort, is assigned (he explains 6a as Ahron b. Joseph: הפרדו מן הפתאים); but his remark, that, under the term "simple," mockers and wicked persons are comprehended as belonging to the same category, confounds two sharply distinguished classes of men. לץ is the freethinker who mocks at religion and virtue (vid., Pro 1:22), and רשׁע the godless who shuns restraint by God and gives himself up to the unbridled impulse to evil. The course of thought in Pro 9:7 and onwards shows why Wisdom, turning from the wise, who already are hers, directs herself only to the simple, and those who are devoid of understanding: she must pass over the לץ and רשׁע dna , because she can there hope for no receptivity for her invitation; she would, contrary to Mat 7:6, "give that which is holy to the dogs, and cast her pearls before swine." יסר, παιδεύειν (with the prevailing idea of the bitter lesson of reproof and punishment), and הוכיח, ἐλέγχειν, are interchangeable conceptions, Psa 94:10; the ל is here exponent of the object (to bring an accusation against any one), as Pro 9:8, Pro 15:12 (otherwise as Isa 2:4; Isa 11:4, where it is the dat. commodi: to bring unrighteousness to light, in favour of the injured). יסר לץ is pointed with Mahpach of the penultima, and thus with the tone thrown back. The Pasek, placed in some editions between the two words, is masoretically inaccurate. He who reads the moral to the mocker brings disgrace to himself; the incorrigible replies to the goodwill with insult. Similar to the לקח לו here, is מרים tollit = reportat, Pro 3:25; Pro 4:27. In 7b מוּמו is by no means the object governed by וּמוכיח: and he who shows to the godless his fault (Meri, Arama, Lwenstein: מומו = על־מומו, and thus also the Graec. Venet. μῶμον ἑαυτῷ, scil. λαμβάνει); plainly מומו is parallel with קלון. But מומו does not also subordinate itself to לקח as to the object. parallel קלון: maculam sibimet scil. acquirit; for, to be so understood, the author ought at least to have written לו מוּם. Much rather מומו is here, as at Deu 32:5, appos., thus pred. (Hitzig), without needing anything to be supplied: his blot it is, viz., this proceeding, which is equivalent to מוּמא הוּא ליהּ (Targ.), opprobrio ipsi est. Zckler not incorrectly compares Psa 115:7 and Ecc 5:16, but the expression (macula ejus = ipsi) lies here less remote from our form of expression. In other words: Whoever correcteth the mockers has only to expect hatred (אל־תוכח with the tone thrown back, according to rule; cf. on the contrary, Jdg 18:25), but on the other hand, love from the wise.
Pro 9:8
The ו in ויאהבך is that of consequence (apodosis imperativi): so he will love thee (as also Ewald now translates), not: that he may love thee (Syr., Targ.), for the author speaks here only of the consequence, not of something else, as an object kept in view. The exhortation influences the mocker less than nothing, so much the more it bears fruit with the wise. Thus the proverb is confirmed habenti dabitur, Mat 13:12; Mat 25:29.
Pro 9:9
If anything is to be supplied to תּן, it is לקח (Pro 4:2); but תן, tradere, παραδιδόναι, is of itself correlat. of לקח, accipere (post-bibl. קבּל), παραλαμβάνειν, e.g., Gal 1:9. הודיע ל = to communicate knowledge, דעת, follows the analogy of הוכיח ל, to impart instruction, תוכחת. Regarding the jussive form ויוסף in the apod. imper., vid., Gesen. 128, 2. Observe in this verse the interchange of חכם and צדיק! Wisdom is not merely an intellectual power, it is a moral quality; in this is founded her receptivity of instruction, her embracing of every opportunity for self-improvement. She is humble; for, without self-will and self-sufficiency, she makes God's will her highest and absolutely binding rule (Pro 3:7). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A former - He shews whom he meant by the foolish, Pro 9:6, even scorners and wicked men, and presses his last advice of forsaking them because there was no good, but hurt to be got from them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He that reproveth a scorner - לץ lets, the person who mocks at sacred things; the libertine, the infidel; who turns the most serious things into ridicule, and, by his wit, often succeeds in rendering the person who reproves him ridiculous. Wisdom seems here to intimate that it is vain to attempt by reproof to amend such: and yet we must not suffer sin upon our neighbor; at all hazards, we must deliver our own soul. But no reproof should be given to any, but in the spirit of love and deep concern; and when they contradict and blaspheme, leave them to God. |
35 The wise [02450] shall inherit [05157] glory [03519]: but shame [07036] shall be the promotion [07311] of fools [03684].
11 He answered [611] and [1161] said [2036] unto them [846], Because [3754] it is given [1325] unto you [5213] to know [1097] the mysteries [3466] of the kingdom [932] of heaven [3772], but [1161] to them [1565] it is [1325] not [3756] given [1325].
7 Be not wise [02450] in thine own eyes [05869]: fear [03372] the LORD [03068], and depart [05493] from evil [07451].
9 As [5613] we said before [4280], so [2532] say I [3004] now [737] again [3825], If any [1536] man preach [2097] any other [3844] gospel [2097] unto you [5209] than [3844] that [3739] ye have received [3880], let him be [2077] accursed [331].
2 For I give [05414] you good [02896] doctrine [03948], forsake [05800] ye not my law [08451].
9 Give [05414] instruction to a wise [02450] man, and he will be yet wiser [02449]: teach [03045] a just [06662] man, and he will increase [03254] in learning [03948].
29 For [1063] unto every one [3956] that hath [2192] shall be given [1325], and [2532] he shall have abundance [4052]: but [1161] from [575] him [846] that hath [2192] not [3361] shall be taken away [142] [575] even [2532] that which [3739] he hath [2192].
12 For [1063] whosoever [3748] hath [2192], to him [846] shall be given [1325], and [2532] he shall have more abundance [4052]: but [1161] whosoever [3748] hath [2192] not [3756], from [575] him [846] shall be taken away [142] even [2532] that [3739] he hath [2192].
8 Reprove [03198] not a scorner [03887], lest he hate [08130] thee: rebuke [03198] a wise man [02450], and he will love [0157] thee.
25 And the children [01121] of Dan [01835] said [0559] unto him, Let not thy voice [06963] be heard [08085] among us, lest angry [04751] [05315] fellows [0582] run [06293] upon thee, and thou lose [0622] thy life [05315], with the lives [05315] of thy household [01004].
16 And this [02090] also is a sore [02470] evil [07451], that in all points [05980] as he came [0935], so shall he go [03212]: and what profit [03504] hath he that hath laboured [05998] for the wind [07307]?
7 They have hands [03027], but they handle [04184] not: feet [07272] have they, but they walk [01980] not: neither speak [01897] they through their throat [01627].
5 They have corrupted [07843] themselves, their spot [03971] is not the spot of his children [01121]: they are a perverse [06141] and crooked [06618] generation [01755].
27 Turn [05186] not to the right hand [03225] nor to the left [08040]: remove [05493] thy foot [07272] from evil [07451].
25 Be not afraid [03372] of sudden [06597] fear [06343], neither of the desolation [07722] of the wicked [07563], when it cometh [0935].
4 But with righteousness [06664] shall he judge [08199] the poor [01800], and reprove [03198] with equity [04334] for the meek [06035] of the earth [0776]: and he shall smite [05221] the earth [0776] with the rod [07626] of his mouth [06310], and with the breath [07307] of his lips [08193] shall he slay [04191] the wicked [07563].
4 And he shall judge [08199] among the nations [01471], and shall rebuke [03198] many [07227] people [05971]: and they shall beat [03807] their swords [02719] into plowshares [0855], and their spears [02595] into pruninghooks [04211]: nation [01471] shall not lift up [05375] sword [02719] against nation [01471], neither shall they learn [03925] war [04421] any more.
12 A scorner [03887] loveth [0157] not one that reproveth [03198] him: neither will he go [03212] unto the wise [02450].
8 Reprove [03198] not a scorner [03887], lest he hate [08130] thee: rebuke [03198] a wise man [02450], and he will love [0157] thee.
10 He that chastiseth [03256] the heathen [01471], shall not he correct [03198]? he that teacheth [03925] man [0120] knowledge [01847], shall not he know?
6 Give [1325] not [3361] that which [3588] is holy [40] unto the dogs [2965], neither [3366] cast [906] ye your [5216] pearls [3135] before [1715] swine [5519], lest [3379] they trample [2662] them [846] under [1722] their [846] feet [4228], and [2532] turn again [4762] and rend [4486] you [5209].
7 He that reproveth [03256] a scorner [03887] getteth [03947] to himself shame [07036]: and he that rebuketh [03198] a wicked [07563] man getteth himself a blot [03971].
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]?
6 Forsake [05800] the foolish [06612], and live [02421]; and go [0833] in the way [01870] of understanding [0998].