Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 17:10 in other translations
| BSB | A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool. |
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| WEB | A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. |
| ASV | A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool. |
| YLT | Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool. |
| DARBY | A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool. |
| BBE | A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man. |
| Webster | A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool. |
What does Proverbs 17:10 mean?
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Proverbs 17:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 17:10
- Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Proverbs 9:8-9
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
- Proverbs 19:25
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
- Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
- Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Proverbs 29:19
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
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Context
- Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
- Proverbs 17:11
An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs 17:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aprovecha la reprensión en el entendido, más que si cien veces hiriese en el necio. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La répréhension fait plus d’impression sur l’homme intelligent que 100 coups sur le sot. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein Verweis dringt bei einem Verständigen tiefer ein, als hundert Schläge bei einem Toren. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Plus proficit correptio apud prudentem, quam centum plagæ apud stultum. |