Proverbs 15:12
A scorner does not love his reprover, || He does not go to the wise.
Literal Standard 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 destruction [are] before YHWH, || Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
13A joyful heart makes the face glad, || And the spirit is struck by grief of heart.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:7And the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat, “[There is] still one man to seek YHWH from him, and I have hated him, for he is not prophesying of good concerning me, but of evil [for] all his days, he [is] Micaiah son of Imlah”; and Jehoshaphat says, “Do not let the king say so.”
Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 13:1A wise son—the instruction of a father, || And a scorner—he has not heard rebuke.
Proverbs 15:10Discipline [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, || Whoever is hating reproof dies.
John 3:18he who is believing in Him is not judged, but he who is not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.
2 Timothy 4:3for there will be a season when they will not endure the sound teaching, but they will heap up teachers according to their own desires—having an itching 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 →