Proverbs 13:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

PROVERBS CHAPTER 13 Heareth; which word is understood out of the next clause, as is frequent in the Hebrew text. Instruction; or, rebuke or reproof. Heareth not rebuke; he hateth reproof, either from his father or from any other man.

Proverbs 13:1

1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.