Proverbs 27:22
Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will still in no wise remove his folly from him.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
23Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds.
Cross References
Exodus 14:5And it was reported to the king of the Egyptians that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharao was turned, and that of his servants against the people; and they said, What is this that we have done, to let the children of Israel go, so that they should not serve us?
1 Samuel 19:21And it was told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied: and Saul sent again a third set of messengers, and they also prophesied.
2 Chronicles 28:22but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and king Achaz said,
Proverbs 23:35And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:22
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. This gives us a touchstone by which we may try ourselves. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is man tried by praising him. Let him be extolled and preferred, and then he will show himself what he is. 1. If a man be made, by the applause that is given him, proud, conceited, and scornful,—if he take the glory to himself which he should transmit to God, as Herod did,—if, the more he is… Read the whole commentary →