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Proverbs 29:1

Some people refuse to bend when someone corrects them. Eventually they will break, and there will be no one to repair the damage.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   God Continued...;   Impenitence;   Obduracy (Hardness);   Punishment;   Self-Will;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Commendation-Reproof;   Destruction;   Hardness (of Heart);   Heart;   Insecurity of the Wicked;   Penitence-Impenitence;   Reproof;   Security-Insecurity;   Sudden Destruction;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Reproof;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Death of the Wicked, the;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;   Reproof;   Self-Will and Stubbornness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Neck;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Exodus, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Hardness of the Heart;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hardening;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hardeneth;   Neck;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Neck;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
One who becomes stiff-necked,
Hebrew Names Version
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
King James Version
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
English Standard Version
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
New American Standard Bible
A person often rebuked who becomes obstinate Will suddenly be broken beyond remedy.
New Century Version
Whoever is stubborn after being corrected many times will suddenly be hurt beyond cure.
Amplified Bible
He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved (corrected, criticized), Will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
World English Bible
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed and can not be cured.
Legacy Standard Bible
A man who hardens his neck after much reproofWill suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Berean Standard Bible
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Contemporary English Version
If you keep being stubborn after many warnings, you will suddenly discover you have gone too far.
Complete Jewish Bible
He who remains stiffnecked after much rebuke will be suddenly and incurably broken.
Darby Translation
He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.
George Lamsa Translation
HE who refuses reproof and stiffens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Good News Translation
If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.
Lexham English Bible
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck— suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.
Literal Translation
A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that is stiffnecked & wyll not be refourmed, shal sodenly be destroyed wt out eny helpe.
American Standard Version
He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Bible in Basic English
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.
King James Version (1611)
He that being often reproued, hardeneth his necke, shal suddenly be destroied, and that without remedy.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Boast not of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what the next day shall bring forth.
English Revised Version
He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sodeyn perischyng schal come on that man, that with hard nol dispisith a blamere; and helth schal not sue hym.
Update Bible Version
He that being often reproved hardens his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Webster's Bible Translation
He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
New English Translation
The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
New King James Version
He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
New Living Translation
Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be destroyed beyond recovery.
New Life Bible
A man who does not listen after many strong words are spoken to him will be destroyed all at once and without help.
New Revised Standard
One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that being often reproved stiffeneth his neck, suddenly shall be hurt, and there be no healing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.
Revised Standard Version
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Young's Literal Translation
A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
THE MESSAGE
For people who hate discipline and only get more stubborn, There'll come a day when life tumbles in and they break, but by then it'll be too late to help them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man who hardens his neck after much reproof Will suddenly be broken beyond remedy.

Contextual Overview

1 Some people refuse to bend when someone corrects them. Eventually they will break, and there will be no one to repair the damage.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He, that being often reproved: Heb. a man of reproofs, Proverbs 1:24-31, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Samuel 2:34, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:18, 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 21:20-23, 1 Kings 22:20-23, 1 Kings 22:28, 1 Kings 22:34-37, 2 Chronicles 25:16, 2 Chronicles 33:10, 2 Chronicles 36:15-17, Jeremiah 25:3-5, Jeremiah 26:3-5, Jeremiah 35:13-16, Zechariah 1:3-6, Matthew 26:21-25, John 6:70, John 6:71, John 13:10, John 13:11, John 13:18, John 13:26, Acts 1:18, Acts 1:25

hardeneth: 2 Chronicles 36:13, Nehemiah 9:29, Isaiah 48:4, Jeremiah 17:23

shall: Proverbs 6:15, Proverbs 28:18, Isaiah 30:13, Isaiah 30:14, Zechariah 7:11-14, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:14 - as one Exodus 7:23 - neither Exodus 8:15 - he hardened Exodus 9:7 - the heart Exodus 32:9 - a stiffnecked Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless Judges 20:13 - would not 2 Samuel 2:22 - wherefore 1 Kings 22:18 - Did I not tell 2 Kings 17:14 - but hardened 2 Chronicles 18:17 - Did I not tell 2 Chronicles 36:16 - till Nehemiah 9:16 - hardened Job 9:4 - who hath hardened Psalms 6:10 - and be Psalms 35:8 - Let destruction Psalms 50:21 - will Psalms 64:7 - suddenly Proverbs 1:23 - my reproof Proverbs 9:8 - Reprove Proverbs 10:17 - he that Proverbs 15:32 - instruction Proverbs 21:29 - hardeneth Proverbs 22:3 - the simple Proverbs 28:14 - but Ecclesiastes 8:7 - he knoweth Isaiah 1:28 - the destruction Jeremiah 6:15 - therefore Jeremiah 7:26 - but Jeremiah 11:11 - which Jeremiah 31:18 - as a Jeremiah 36:23 - he cut Jeremiah 36:31 - will bring Ezekiel 3:19 - if thou Ezekiel 33:4 - whosoever heareth Ezekiel 33:9 - if he Daniel 5:5 - the same Hosea 9:17 - because Amos 8:14 - shall fall Habakkuk 2:7 - they Matthew 24:50 - come Matthew 27:19 - his John 9:34 - and dost Romans 2:5 - But after Ephesians 5:11 - but Hebrews 3:8 - Harden

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city.
Genesis 25:20
When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebekah. Rebekah was from Paddan Aram. She was Bethuel's daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 29:5
Then Jacob said, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" The shepherds answered, "We know him."
Genesis 29:7
Jacob said, "Look, it is still day and long before the sun sets. It is not yet time for the animals to be gathered together for the night. So give them water and let them go back into the field."
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban for seven years. But it seemed like a very short time because he loved Rachel very much.
Genesis 29:23
That night Laban brought his daughter Leah to Jacob. Jacob and Leah had sexual relations together.
Numbers 23:7
Then Balaam spoke, and this was his message: "Balak, the king of Moab, brought me here from the eastern mountains of Aram. Balak said to me, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, speak against the Israelites.'
Judges 6:3
They did that because the Midianites and Amalekites from the east always came and destroyed their crops.
Judges 6:33
The Midianites, Amalekites, and other people from the east joined together to fight against the Israelites. They went across the Jordan River and camped in the Jezreel Valley.
Judges 7:12
The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the other people from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many people that they seemed like a swarm of locusts. It seemed like they had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that being often reported hardeneth [his] neck,.... Or "a man of reproofs" d; either a man that takes upon him to be a censurer and reprover of others, and is often at that work, and yet does those things himself which he censures and reproves in others; and therefore must have an impudent face and a hard heart a seared conscience and a stiff neck; his neck must be an iron sinew and his brow brass: or rather a man that is often reproved by others by parents by ministers of the Gospel, by the Lord himself, by the admonitions of his word and Spirit and by the correcting dispensations of his providence; and yet despises and rejects all counsel and admonition, instruction and reproofs of every kind, and hardens himself against them and shows no manner of regard unto them. The metaphor is taken from oxen, which kick and toss about and will not suffer the yoke to be put upon their necks. Such an one

shall suddenly be destroyed; or "broken" e; as a potter's vessel is broken to pieces with an iron rod, and can never he put together again; so such persons shall be punished with everlasting destruction, which shall come upon them suddenly, when they are crying Peace to themselves notwithstanding the reproofs of God and men;

and that without remedy; or, "and there [is] no healing" f; no cure of their disease, which is obstinate; no pardon of their sins; no recovery of them out of their miserable and undone state and condition; they are irretrievably lost; there is no help for them, having despised advice and instruction; see Proverbs 5:12.

d איש תוכחות "vir increpationum", Vatablus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "vir correptionum", Piscator, Michaelis; "vir redargutionum", Schultens. e ישבר "conteretur", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, c. "confringetur", Schultens so Baynus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius. f ואין מרפא "et non (erit) sanitas", Pagninus, Montanus, Baynus "non sit curatio", Junius Tremellius "medicina", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall be destroyed - literally, “shall be broken” Proverbs 6:15. Stress is laid on the suddenness in such a case of the long-delayed retribution.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIX

We must not despise correction. The prudent king. The

flatterer. The just judge. Contend not with a fool. The prince

who opens his ears to reports. The poor and the deceitful. The

pious king. The insolent servant. The humiliation of the proud.

Of the partner of a thief. The fear of man. The Lord the

righteous Judge.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIX

Verse Proverbs 29:1. Hardeneth his neck — Becomes stubborn and obstinate.


 
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