Proverbs 19:25
WEB
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
BSB
Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.
KJV
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H3887
v — make mouths at, scoff, interpret, intercede
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
vb — scorn
[לִיץ] vb. scorn
Qal scorn
Hiph.
1. deride
2. Pt. interpreter
Po‛lel scorners
Hithp. act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker
H5221
v — strike
Derivation: a primitive root;
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), × go forward, × indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, × surely, wound.
vb — smite
[נָכָה] 501 vb. smite (not in Qal)
Niph. and he shall be smitten [struck by weapon in battle] and die
Pu. both be smitten down by the hail
Hiph.
1.
a. lit., smite (with a single, non-fatal, blow), strike
b. smite repeatedly, beat a man
c. and they clapped hands (in applause)
d. give a thrust (with fork) into pot; strike roots
e. rarely smite (in battle) so as (merely) to wound
f. smite, of sun
2. Smite fatally
3. Smite = attack, attack and destroy a company
4. Of God
a. smite with a plague, disease, etc.
b. smite = chastise, or send judgment upon
c. of God’s destroying palaces
Hoph. be smitten
H6612
a n-f — silly
Derivation: or פֶּתִי; or פְּתָאִי; from 6601;
silly (i.e. seducible)
KJV: foolish, simple(-icity, one).
adj — simple
פֶּ֫תִי adj. simple, poss. as open-minded
H6191
v — be, make, bare, be cunning
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense)
KJV: × very, beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly.
vb — be shrewd
[עָרֹם] vb. be shrewd, crafty
Qal he is exceedingly crafty
Hiph. be crafty; be or become shrewd
H3198
v — be right, argue, decide, justify, convict
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
KJV: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
vb — decide
[יָכַח] vb. Hiph. decide, adjudge, prove
Hiph.
1. decide, judge
2. adjudge, appoint
3. shew to be right, prove
4. convince, convict
5. reprove, chide
6. correct, rebuke
Hoph. he is chastened also with pain
Niph. come now and let us reason together; there an upright man might reason with him; and thou art set right, righted, justified
Hithp. with Israel he will argue
H995
v — separate, distinguish, understand
Derivation: a primitive root;
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
vb — discern
בִּין vb. discern
Qal
1. perceive
2. understand, know (with mind)
3. observe, mark, give heed to, distinguish, consider (with attention)
4. have discernment, insight, understanding
Niph. be intelligent, discreet, discerning, distinguish, have understanding
Po. he attentively considereth him
Hiph.
1. understand
2. give heed to, attend to, observe, discern
3. give understanding, make understand, teach
Hithp.
1. shew oneself attentive, consider diligently
2. get understanding, understand
3. shew oneself to have understanding
H1847
n — knowledge
Derivation: from 3045;
knowledge
KJV: cunning, (ig-) norantly, know(-ledge), (un-) awares (wittingly).
n.f — knowledge
דַּ֫עַת n.f. knowledge
1.
a. knowledge, perception
b. = skill (in workmanship)
c. of proph. knowledge
d. esp. knowledge with moral quality
e. knowledge possessed by God
2. esp. in Wisd Lt = discernment, understanding, wisdom
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Verse 25
Proverbs 19:25
Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear, Deu 19:20. If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being inveterate, yet the simple will beware of venturing upon the sin which exposes men thus. If it cure not the infected, it may prevent the spreading of the infection. 2. The reproof of wise men will be a means of good to themselves. They need not be smitten; a word to the wise is enough. Do but reprove one that has understanding and he will so far understand himself and his own interest that he will understand knowledge by it, and not miss it again through ignorance and inadvertency when once he has been told of it; so kindly does he take reproof and so wisely improve it.
Cross-references: Deut 19:20