Proverbs 9:7
If you correct a mocker all you get are insults; if you argue with the wicked all you get is abuse.
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6Leave your foolish ways and you will live; follow the path that makes sense.”
8So don't argue with mockers or they'll only hate you; argue with the wise and they'll love you.
Cross References
Genesis 19:9“Out of our way!” they shouted. “Who do you think you are, coming to live here and now trying to judge us? We'll do even worse things to you than we were going to do to these men!” They rushed forward at Lot and tried to break down the door.
1 Kings 21:20“So have you come to find me, my enemy?” Ahab asked Elijah. “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the Lord's sight,” Elijah replied.
1 Kings 22:27Tell them these are the king's instructions: ‘Put this man in jail. Give him only bread and water until my safe return.’”
2 Chronicles 25:15The Lord became angry with Amaziah and he sent a prophet to him, who said to him, “Why would you worship the gods of a people who couldn't even save their own people from you?”
Proverbs 15:12Scoffers don't like to be corrected, so they don't go to the wise for advice.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →