Proverbs 21:11

WEB

¹¹When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

KJV

¹¹When the scorner^[+] is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

BSB

¹¹When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.

FBV

¹¹When a mocker is punished, an immature person can learn wisdom. When the wise are educated, they gain knowledge.

Extra References

Proverbs 19:25

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

Proverbs 18:15

¹⁵The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Acts 5:5

⁵Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

Proverbs 9:9

⁹Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 18:1

¹A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:21

²¹All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

¹Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. ²For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, ³how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

1 Corinthians 10:6-11

⁶Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. ⁷Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”⁸Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. ⁹Let’s not test Christ,^[+] as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. ¹⁰Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Psalms 64:7-9

⁷But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow. ⁸Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads. ⁹All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

Proverbs 1:5

⁵that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;