Proverbs 16:22
WEB
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
BSB
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
KJV
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H4726
n-m — dug, source, pudenda
Derivation: or מָקֹר; from 6979;
properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
KJV: fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).
n.m — spring
מָקוֹר n.m. spring, fountain (app. orig. well)
1. spring of water
2. fig. of eye
3. source of menstruous blood
4. = flow of blood after child-birth
H2416
a n-m n-f — alive, raw, fresh, strong, life
Derivation: from 2421;
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV: age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
adj — alive
חַי adj. alive, living
1.
a. of God, as the living one, the fountain of life
b. of man
c. of animals, alive, living
d. animals and man
e. (dub.) of vegetation, as thorns, green
f. of water, fresh
2. (dub.) lively, active
3. reviving
n.f — living thing
חַיָּה n.f. living thing, animal
1. animal
a. in general
b. wild animals, on account of their vital energy and activity
c. living beings, of the cherubic chariot
2. life, only in late poetry
3. appetite, activity of hunger
4. revival, renewal
n.f — community
חַיָּה n.f. community
n.m — life
חַיִּים n.m. pl. abstr. emph. life
1. life: physical
2. life: as welfare and happiness in king's presence
3. sustenance, maintenance
H7922
n-m — intelligence, success
Derivation: or שֵׂכֶל; from 7919;
intelligence; by implication, success
KJV: discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
n.m — prudence
שֵׂ֫כֶל, שֶׂ֫כֶל n.m. prudence, insight
H1167
n-m — master, husband, owner
Derivation: from 1166;
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV: archer, babbler, bird, captain, chief man, confederate, have to do, dreamer, those to whom it is due, furious, those that are given to it, great, hairy, he that hath it, have, horseman, husband, lord, man, married, master, person, sworn, they of.
n.m — Baal
בַּעַל 166 n.m. owner, lord
I.
1. owner
2. husband
3. citizens, inhabitants
4. rulers, lords
5. n. of relation
II. Esp. lord, specif. as divine name, Baal.
H4148
n-m — chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint
Derivation: from 3256;
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
KJV: bond, chastening(-eth), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
n.m — discipline
מוּסָר n.m. discipline (of the moral nature), chastening, correction
H191
a-m — silly
Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse);
(figuratively) silly
KJV: fool(-ish) (man).
adj — foolish
אֱוִיל 26 adj. foolish
H200
n-f — silliness
Derivation: from the same as 191;
silliness
KJV: folly, foolishly(-ness).
n.f — folly
אִוֶּ֫לֶת 25 n.f. folly
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Verse 22
Proverbs 16:22
Note, 1. There is always some good to be gotten by a wise and good man: His understanding is a well-spring of life to him, which always flows and can never be drawn dry; he has something to say upon all occasions that is instructive, and of use to those that will make use of it, things new and old to bring out of his treasure; at least, his understanding is a spring of life to himself, yielding him abundant satisfaction; within his own thoughts he entertains and edifies himself, if not others. 2. There is nothing that is good to be gotten by a fool. Even his instruction, his set and solemn discourses, are but folly, like himself, and tending to make others like him. When he does his best it is but folly, in comparison even with the common talk of a wise man, who speaks better at table than a fool in Moses's seat.