Proverbs 10:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֹ֣רַח לְ֭חַיִּים שׁוֹמֵ֣ר מוּסָ֑ר וְעוֹזֵ֖ב תּוֹכַ֣חַת מַתְעֶֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾōraḥ lə-ḥayyîm šômēr mûsār wə-ʿôzēb tôkaḥat matʿeh

Grammar Details

• *ʾōraḥ*: masculine singular construct - path to
• *lə-ḥayyîm*: preposition + masculine plural noun - to life
• *šômēr*: Qal participle masculine singular - keeping/observing
• *mûsār*: masculine singular noun - discipline/instruction
• *wə-ʿôzēb*: conjunction + Qal participle masculine singular - and forsaking/abandoning
• *tôkaḥat*: feminine singular noun - reproof/correction
• *matʿeh*: Hiphil participle masculine singular - leading astray

Word Meanings

• *ʾōraḥ*: path/way/road
• *ḥayyîm*: life/living/existence
• *šômēr*: keeping/observing/guarding
• *mûsār*: discipline/instruction/correction
• *ʿôzēb*: forsaking/abandoning/leaving
• *tôkaḥat*: reproof/correction/rebuke
• *matʿeh*: leading astray/causing to err/misleading

Referenced Verses

• Prov 3:1-2 : 1 My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.
• Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Prov 1:25-26 : 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
• Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
• Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; And the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
• Prov 15:10 : 10 There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; [And] he that hateth reproof shall die.
• Prov 22:17-19 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge. 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. 19 That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Eccl 5:6 : 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
• Matt 7:24-27 : 24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: 25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock. 26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
• Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
• Heb 2:1 : 1 Therefore {G5124} we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them].
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:
• 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he that {G3361} lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall {G4417} never {G4218} stumble: 11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
• Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Prov 1:30 : 30 They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
• Prov 4:4 : 4 And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
• Prov 4:13 : 13 Take fast hold of instruction; Let her not go: Keep her; For she is thy life.
• 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.