Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Whose despiseth the word (namely, of God) shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded - Hebrew, 'shall be destroyed for himself' х low (H3807a)]: all he shall get for himself is destruction. Or else, he shall be destroyed for it - i:e., for despising it. The Chaldaic, Syriac, and Arabic, translate, 'by it.' Maurer translates, 'becometh liable to it'-namely, to the punishment which is inflicted on its violators. So Esau "despised (his) birthright," and became liable to punishment accordingly (Genesis 25:34). So the despisers of the Lord's invitation (Luke 14:18). Also the Jews who "despised God's words, so that the wrath of the Lord arose, against His people, until (there was) no remedy" (2 Chronicles 36:16). "Shall be rewarded" ( yªshulaam (H7999)): not as margin, 'shall be in peace' (for in the Pual conjuration this Hebrew verb has not usually this sense, but that of the English version).