Proverbs 15:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. ”

• Proverbs 15:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverbs 15:11 ) is noteworthy as showing an extended con...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  A fool. Hebrew. 'evil. See note on Proverbs 1:7 . prudent. Septuagint adds: "In abounding righteousness is great strength, but the ungodly will perish root and branch. "

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. A fool despiseth his father's instruction - whether through carelessness, sloth, or love of pleasure or ga...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A fool (’ evîl ). — See above, on Proverbs 1:7 .

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A m...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Kind Words and Glad Hearts Proverbs 15:1-17 A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright -these keywords touch one of the greate...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 15:11 . This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. The eyes of the LORD are in every pl...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A fool despiseth his father's instruction ,.... They are fools that despise any instruction that is wise, good, and profitable; and especially a father's instruction, whose love, tender affection, a...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. Ver. 5. A fool despiseth his father's instruction.] Heb., Entertains it with contumelious and opprobrious langua...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A fool despiseth Doth not regard nor obey; (which is an evidence of contempt;) his father's instruction Who hath both love to him and authority over him, which greatly aggravates his folly; but...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.       Hence, 1. Let superiors be admonished to give instruction and reproof to those that are under t...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A fool despiseth, doth not regard nor obey, which is an evidence of contempt, his father's instruction; who hath both love to him, and authority over him; which greatly aggravates his folly. Rep...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Wise Words, Reproof And Firm Discipline Uphold The Righteous, Giving Them Suitable Reward, Whilst The Unrighteous Reject Reproof, And Suffer The Consequences ( Proverbs 15:4-13 ). In this subsecti...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:3 . Beholding , rather “watching,” “observing” (so Stuart, Miller, and Delitzsch). Proverbs 15:4 . Whole-some, “gentle,” “soft,” perverseness or “transgression,...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, sa...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 5. A fool despiseth his father's instruction, he reveals his folly by refusing to be corrected; but he that regardeth reproof, always willing to accept correction, is prudent, shows the prop...

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• Proverbs 15:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 22:11-13 ; 1 Chronicles 28:20 ; 1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:23-25 ; 2 Samuel 15:1-6 ; Proverbs 10:1 ; Proverbs 13:1 ; Proverbs 13:18 ; Proverbs 1:23 ; Proverbs 15:31 ; Prov...

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