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New Life Version

Proverbs 17:10

A man of understanding learns more from being told the right thing to do 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.
Good News Translation
An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.
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 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 A man of understanding learns more from being told the right thing to do 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
Then Abram fell on his face. God said to him,
Genesis 17:6
Many will come from you. I will make nations of you. Kings will come from you.
Genesis 17:9
Then God said to Abraham, "You must keep My agreement, you and your children after you for all time.
Genesis 17:11
In this religious act the skin is cut off from the end of your sex part. This will be the special act of the agreement between Me and you.
Genesis 17:12
Every male child among you who is eight days old must have this religious act done, through all time. The same must be done to all the men born in your house or bought with your money from any stranger, who is not one of your family.
Genesis 17:18
Then Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live before You!"
Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son. And you will give him the name Isaac. I will make My agreement with him and for his children after him, an agreement that will last forever.
Genesis 17:25
His son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he had the religious act done of cutting off his piece of skin.
Genesis 17:26
Abraham and his son Ishmael had this religious act done that very day.
Genesis 34:15
We will give you our sister only if you become like us. Every man among you must have this religious act done.

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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