Proverbs 17:10

WEB

¹⁰A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

KJV

¹⁰A reproof^[+] entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

BSB

¹⁰A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.

FBV

¹⁰A reprimand hits a thinking person more than one hundred blows hit someone stupid.

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Extra References

Revelation 3:19

¹⁹As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁸Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. ⁹Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Psalms 141:5

⁵Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 27:22

²²Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Proverbs 15:5

⁵A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Proverbs 29:19

¹⁹A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

Proverbs 13:1

¹A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 19:25

²⁵Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.