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Text -- Proverbs 17:10 (NET)

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17:10 A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Wisdom | Reproof | REBUKE | Punishment | FOOL; FOLLY | EDUCATION | more
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JFB: Pro 17:10 - -- Reproof more affects the wise than severe scourging, fools.

Reproof more affects the wise than severe scourging, fools.

Clarke: Pro 17:10 - -- A reproof entereth more - Though the rod, judiciously applied, is a great instrument of knowledge, yet it is of no use where incurable dulness or wa...

A reproof entereth more - Though the rod, judiciously applied, is a great instrument of knowledge, yet it is of no use where incurable dulness or want of intellect, prevails. Besides, there are generous dispositions on which counsel will work more than stripes.

TSK: Pro 17:10 - -- or, A reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times. Pro 9:8, Pro 9:9, Pro 13:1, Pro 15:5, Pro 19:25, Pro 27:22, Pro 29:19; Ps...

or, A reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times.

Pro 9:8, Pro 9:9, Pro 13:1, Pro 15:5, Pro 19:25, Pro 27:22, Pro 29:19; Psa 141:5; Rev 3:19

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Poole: Pro 17:10 - -- Is more effectual for his reformation.

Is more effectual for his reformation.

Haydock: Pro 17:10 - -- Fools. "A word is enough for the wise." Nobilis equus umbra virgζ regitur, ignavus ne calcari quidem. (Q. Curtius)

Fools. "A word is enough for the wise." Nobilis equus umbra virgζ regitur, ignavus ne calcari quidem. (Q. Curtius)

Gill: Pro 17:10 - -- A reproof entereth more into a wise man,.... A single verbal reproof, gently, kindly, and prudently given, not only enters the ear, but the heart of a...

A reproof entereth more into a wise man,.... A single verbal reproof, gently, kindly, and prudently given, not only enters the ear, but the heart of a wise and understanding man; it descends into him, as the word k signifies; it sinks deep into his mind; it penetrates into his heart, and pierces his conscience; brings him easily to humiliation, confession, and reformation. Or, "reproof is more terror to a wise man"; as Jarchi interprets it, and the Tigurine version; it awes and terrifies him more; a single word has more effect upon him, entering more easily into him,

than an hundred stripes into a fool; or, "than smiting a fool a hundred times" l: a word to a wise man is more than a hundred blows to a fool, will sooner correct and amend him; a word will enter where a blow will not; stripes only reach the back, but not the heart of a fool; he is never the better for all the corrections given him; his heart is not affected, is not humbled, nor brought to a sense of sin, and acknowledgment of it; nor is he in the least reformed: or a single reproof to a wise man is of more service than a hundred reproofs to a fool; which are sometimes expressed by smiting, "let the righteous smite me", &c. Psa 141:5.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 17:10 The form is the Hiphil infinitive of נָכָה (nakhah) with the comparative מִן, min. The word “foo...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 17:10 - --A gentle reproof will enter, not only into the head, but into the heart of a wise man.

Matthew Henry: Pro 17:10 - -- Note, 1. A word is enough to the wise. A gentle reproof will enter not only into the head, but into the heart of a wise man, so as to have a strong ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 17:7-10 - -- The proverbs following, Pro 17:7-10, appear to be united acrostically by the succession of the letters ש ( שׂ , שׁ ) and ת . Pro 17:7 7 It ...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 17:1-28 - --2. Peacemakers and troublemakers ch. 17 17:8 The owner of the bribe is the person who gives it. A bribe is an effective tool. It works like a charm. T...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 17 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 17 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 17 Of sacrifices ; of the remainders of sacrifices, of which they used to make feasts; of which See Poole "Pro 7:14" . Or, of slain be...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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