Proverbs 15:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֣א יֶאֱהַב־לֵ֭ץ הוֹכֵ֣חַֽ ל֑וֹ אֶל־חֲ֝כָמִ֗ים לֹ֣א יֵלֵֽךְ׃

Transliteration

Lōʾ yeʾĕhaḇ-lēṣ hôḵēaḥ lô ʾel-ḥăḵāmîm lōʾ yēlēk

Grammar Details

• *Lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yeʾĕhaḇ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he loves
• *lēṣ*: noun, masculine singular - scoffer/mocker
• *hôḵēaḥ*: hiphil infinitive construct - to reprove/correct
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/toward
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wise ones
• *lōʾ yēlēk*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will not go

Word Meanings

• *Lōʾ yeʾĕhaḇ-lēṣ*: a scoffer does not love/mocker does not like
• *hôḵēaḥ lô*: one who reproves him/being corrected
• *ʾel-ḥăḵāmîm lōʾ yēlēk*: to wise ones he will not go/he avoids those who are wise

Referenced Verses

• Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
• John 3:18-21 : 18 He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
• John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• 2 Chr 18:7 : 7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• Job 21:14 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
• Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man [getteth] himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
• Prov 15:10 : 10 There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; [And] he that hateth reproof shall die.