Proverbs 15:5
A foole despiseth his fathers instruction: but he that regardeth correction, is prudent.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
In Context
4A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
6The house of the righteous hath much treasure: but in the reuenues of the wicked is trouble.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:1After this, Absalom prepared him charets and horses, and fiftie men to runne before him.
1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.
Psalms 141:5Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.
Proverbs 1:23(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
Proverbs 10:1THE PARABLE OF SALOMON. A wise sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolish sonne is an heauines to his mother.
Proverbs 13:18Pouertie and shame is to him that refuseth instruction: but hee that regardeth correction, shalbe honoured.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:5
4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. Note, 1. A good tongue is healing, healing to wounded consciences by comforting them, to sin-sick souls by convincing them, to peace and love when it is broken by accommodating differences, compromising matters in variance, and reconciling parties at variance; this is the healing of the tongue, which is a tree of life, the leaves of which have a sanative virtue, Rev. xxii. 2 . He that knows how to discourse will make the… Read the whole commentary →