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Good News Translation

Proverbs 17:10

An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Punishment;   Reproof;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Commendation-Reproof;   Reproof;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Reproof;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Reproof;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fool, Foolishness, and Folly;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Education;   Fool;   Rebuke;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Folly and Fool;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A rebuke cuts into a perceptive personmore than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Hebrew Names Version
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
King James Version
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
English Standard Version
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
New American Standard Bible
A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred blows into a fool.
New Century Version
A wise person will learn more from a warning than a fool will learn from a hundred lashings.
Amplified Bible
A reprimand goes deeper into one who has understanding and a teachable spirit Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
World English Bible
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A reproofe entereth more into him that hath vnderstanding, then an hundreth stripes into a foole.
Legacy Standard Bible
A rebuke goes deeper into one who understandsThan a hundred blows into a fool.
Berean Standard Bible
A rebuke affects a man of discernment more than a hundred lashes to a fool.
Contemporary English Version
A sensible person accepts correction, but you can't beat sense into a fool.
Complete Jewish Bible
A rebuke makes more impression on a person of understanding than a hundred blows on a fool.
Darby Translation
A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Easy-to-Read Version
Smart people learn more from a single correction than fools learn from a hundred beatings.
George Lamsa Translation
A threat breaks the heart of a wise man; but the fool instead of a rebuke receives a scourging, and yet he is not conscious of it.
Lexham English Bible
A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
Literal Translation
A reproof enters more into one discerning than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One reprofe only doth more good to him yt hath vnderstodinge, then an C. stripes vnto a foole.
American Standard Version
A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Bible in Basic English
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
King James Version (1611)
A reproofe entreth more into a wise man, then an hundred stripes into a foole.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.
English Revised Version
A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A blamyng profitith more at a prudent man, than an hundryd woundis at a fool.
Update Bible Version
A rebuke enters deeper into one that has understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Webster's Bible Translation
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
New English Translation
A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.
New King James Version
Rebuke is more effective for a wise man Than a hundred blows on a fool.
New Living Translation
A single rebuke does more for a person of understanding than a hundred lashes on the back of a fool.
New Life Bible
A man of understanding learns more from being told the right thing to do than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
New Revised Standard
A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!
Douay-Rheims Bible
A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.
Revised Standard Version
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Young's Literal Translation
Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
THE MESSAGE
A quiet rebuke to a person of good sense does more than a whack on the head of a fool.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred blows into a fool.

Contextual Overview

10 An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

or, A reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times. Proverbs 9:8, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 13:1, Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 19:25, Proverbs 27:22, Proverbs 29:19, Psalms 141:5, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:25 - reproved Judges 2:4 - the people 1 Samuel 25:33 - blessed Proverbs 10:13 - a rod Proverbs 19:29 - and Proverbs 26:3 - General Ecclesiastes 7:5 - better Ezekiel 3:21 - he shall Luke 17:3 - rebuke

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground, and God said,
Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
Genesis 17:9
God said to Abraham, "You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations.
Genesis 17:11
From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.
Genesis 17:18
He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"
Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:25
and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
Genesis 17:26
They were both circumcised on the same day,
Genesis 34:15
We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah, his wife, took a sharp stone, cut off the foreskin of her son, and touched Moses' feet with it. Because of the rite of circumcision she said to Moses, "You are a husband of blood to me." And so the Lord spared Moses' life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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. Psalms 141:5.

k תחת "descendet", Montanus "descendit", Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus. l מהכות כסיל מאה "magis quam si percuties stolidum centies", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, so Pagninus, Michaelis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 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 want of intellect, prevails. Besides, there are generous dispositions on which counsel will work more than stripes.


 
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