Proverbs 15:32
If people refuse to listen when others try to correct them, they are despising/hurting themselves; those who ◄pay attention/heed► when others warn them ◄become wiser/acquire good sense►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
31If people pay attention when people correct/warn them, they will become wise.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18“Suppose there is a boy who is very stubborn and always ◄rebelling against/disobeying► his parents, and who will not heed what they say to him. And suppose that they punish him but he still does not pay attention to what they tell him [MTY].
Psalms 50:17because you have refused to allow me to discipline you, and you have rejected what I told you to do.
Proverbs 1:24But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.
Proverbs 8:33Listen carefully to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
Proverbs 15:14Those who have good sense want to learn more; foolish people [MTY] are very satisfied with being foolish/ignorant.
Proverbs 17:16It is useless to allow foolish people [RHQ] to try to become wise by paying for it, because they do not have enough good sense to become wise.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:32
31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. Note, 1. It is the character of a wise man that he is very willing to be reproved, and therefore chooses to converse with those that, both by their words and example, will show him what is amiss in him: The ear that can take the reproof will love the reprover. Faithful friendly reproofs are here called the reproofs of life, not only because they are to be given in a lively manner, and with a prudent zeal (and we must reprove by our lives as well… Read the whole commentary →