Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 17 connects to 9 cross-references. Proverbs on family life, friendship, and integrity: better a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Whoever mocks the …
Other Translations
A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Cross References
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent …
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase …
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart …
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.