Proverbs 15:10
Discipline [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, || Whoever is hating reproof dies.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
In Context
11Sheol and destruction [are] before YHWH, || Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:17[And it] comes to pass at Ahab’s seeing Elijah that Ahab says to him, “Are you he—the troubler of Israel?”
1 Kings 22:8And the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat, “Yet one man [remains] to seek YHWH from him, and I have hated him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil—Micaiah son of Imlah”; and Jehoshaphat says, “Do not let the king say so.”
Psalms 50:17Indeed, you have hated instruction, || And cast My words behind you.
Proverbs 5:12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
Proverbs 12:1Whoever is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, || And whoever is hating reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:10
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. This is a reason of what was said in the foregoing verse. 1. The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to God, not for want of some nice points of ceremony, but because their way, the whole course and tenour of their conversation, is wicked, and consequently an abomination to him. Sacrifices for sin were not accepted of those that resolved to go on in sin, and were to the highest degree abominable… Read the whole commentary →