Proverbs 10:17
A traveler to life [is] he who is keeping instruction, || And whoever is forsaking rebuke is erring.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
In Context
16The wage of the righteous [is] for life, || The increase of the wicked for sin.
18Whoever is covering hatred with lying lips, || And whoever is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:25And you slight all my counsel, || And you have not desired my reproof.
Proverbs 3:1My son! Do not forget my law, || And let your heart keep my commands,
Proverbs 4:4And he directs me, and he says to me: “Let your heart retain my words, || Keep my commands, and live.
Proverbs 5:12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
Proverbs 6:23For the command [is] a lamp, || And the Law a light, || And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
Proverbs 15:10Discipline [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, || Whoever is hating reproof dies.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:17
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. Solomon here confirms what his father had said ( Ps. xxxvii. 16 ), A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked. 1. Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for; he eats only the labour of his hands, but that labour tends to life; he aims at nothing but to get an honest livelihood, covets not to be rich and great, but is willing to live and maintain his family. Nor does it tend only to… Read the whole commentary →