Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
In Context
11Sheol and Abaddon are before LORD. How much more then the hearts of the sons of men!
13A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:7And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of LORD, but I hate him. For he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil; the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 13:1A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.
Proverbs 15:10There is grievous correction for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof shall die.
John 3:18He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
2 Timothy 4:3For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:12
11 Hell and destruction are before the Lord : how much more then the hearts of the children of men? This confirms what was said ( v. 3 ) concerning God's omnipresence, in order to his judging of evil and good. 1. God knows all things, even those things that are hidden from the eyes of all living: Hell and destruction are before the Lord, not only the centre of the earth, and its subterraneous caverns, but the grave, and all the dead bodies which are there buried out of our sight; they are all before the Lord, all… Read the whole commentary →