When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
When the scorner is punished, the simple and inexperienced person who watches it is made wise, learning caution and discernment from the judgment he sees fall on another. When the wise person is instructed, he receives further knowledge, growing by teaching rather than needing punishment. Submission to correction is therefore a practical rule of everyday life, with punishment warning the simple and instruction enriching the wise.
The verse belongs to a storehouse of practical wisdom and a summary of life's experience that guides moral and religious duty to family, neighbor, friend, and God. It sets forth Jehovah as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies, who rewards piety and punishes evil. It holds before mankind the invitations and counsels of Christ in the character of Wisdom.
It calls for modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and other virtues. It warns against loving praise and flattery while refusing reproof, and stands with warnings about temperance and talebearing and about the woes of intemperance.
When the scorner is punished, the simple and inexperienced person who watches it is made wise, learning caution and discernment from the judgment he sees fall on another. When the wise person is instructed, he receives further knowledge, growing by teaching rather than needing punishment. Submission to correction is therefore a practical rule of everyday life, with punishment warning the simple and instruction enriching the wise.
The verse belongs to a storehouse of practical wisdom and a summary of life's experience that guides moral and religious duty to family, neighbor, friend, and God. It sets forth Jehovah as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies, who rewards piety and punishes evil. It holds before mankind the invitations and counsels of Christ in the character of Wisdom.
It calls for modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and other virtues. It warns against loving praise and flattery while refusing reproof, and stands with warnings about temperance and talebearing and about the woes of intemperance.