Proverbs 10:17
A traveller to life [is] he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
In Context
16The wage of the righteous [is] for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
Proverbs 3:1My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
Proverbs 4:4And he directeth me, and he saith to me: 'Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
Proverbs 5:12And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Proverbs 6:23For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
Proverbs 15:10Chastisement [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:17
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. Solomon here confirms what his father had said ( Ps. xxxvii. 16 ), A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked. 1. Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for; he eats only the labour of his hands, but that labour tends to life; he aims at nothing but to get an honest livelihood, covets not to be rich and great, but is willing to live and maintain his family. Nor does it tend only to… Read the whole commentary →