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Proverbios 17:10
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La reprensión penetra más en el que tiene entendimiento que cien azotes en el necio.
Aprovecha la reprensi�n al hombre entendido, m�s que cien azotes al necio.
Aprovecha la reprensi�n en el entendido, m�s que cien azotes en el loco.
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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
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.
