Proverbs 15:12

Some people do not want to be corrected; they never go to wise people to seek good advice from them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

In Context

11Yahweh knows what is happening in the place where dead people [DOU] are, so he certainly knows [RHQ] what people are thinking.

13When people are happy, they have smiles on their faces; but when they are sad, by looking at their faces we can see that they are sad.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:7The king of Israel replied, “There is still one man here, whom we can ask to find out what Yahweh wants, his name is Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never says anything good about me. He always predicts that bad things will happen to me.” Jehoshaphat replied, “King Ahab, you should not say that!”

Proverbs 1:22Wisdom says, “How long will you stupid people continue to enjoy doing foolish things [RHQ]? How long will you people who ridicule God enjoy doing that [RHQ]? How long will you foolish people refuse to know what things are right [RHQ]?

Proverbs 13:1Children who are wise ◄pay attention/heed it► when their parents discipline/correct them; but foolish children do not pay attention when someone rebukes them for their bad behavior.

Proverbs 15:10Those who do what is wrong will be severely punished; those who do not want to be corrected will die.

John 3:18Everyone who trusts in his Son, God says that they will not be punished {that he will not punish them}. But God has already said that everyone who does not trust in his Son will be punished {that he will punish everyone who does not trust in his Son}, because they have not trusted in what his only Son has done for them.

2 Timothy 4:3Do these things because there will be a time when people will not listen to good teaching. Instead, they will bring in many teachers for themselves who will tell them just what they want to hear [IDM]. The reason that they will bring in such teachers is that they want to do the evil things that they desire.

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 →

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