◄ Proverbs 19:25 ►
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Good News Translation
Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.

New Revised Standard Version
Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
Stupid fools learn good sense by seeing others punished; a sensible person learns by being corrected.

New American Bible
Beat a scoffer and the naive learn a lesson; rebuke the intelligent and they gain knowledge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.

smite

Proverbs 21:11 When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

Deuteronomy 13:11 That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

Deuteronomy 21:21 The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

beware

Proverbs 9:9,10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence. . . .

Proverbs 15:5 A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.

Proverbs 17:10 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
The Man of Integrity
…24The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth. 25The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.26He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.…
Cross References
Psalm 141:5
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 9:7
Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs 9:8
Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.

Proverbs 21:11
When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

Proverbs 19:24
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