Proverbs 24:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלַמּוֹכִיחִ֥ים יִנְעָ֑ם וַֽ֝עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם תָּב֥וֹא בִרְכַּת־טֹֽוּב׃

Transliteration

And-to-the-môkîḥîm yinʿām and-upon-them tābôʾ birkat-ṭôb

Grammar Details

• *môkîḥîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural with article - those who rebuke
• *yinʿām*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be pleasant
• *tābôʾ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - will come
• *birkat*: feminine singular construct - blessing of
• *ṭôb*: masculine singular noun - good

Word Meanings

• *môkîḥîm*: those who rebuke/those who correct/those who reprove
• *yinʿām*: it will be pleasant/it will be delightful
• *birkat*-*ṭôb*: blessing of good/good blessing

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:23 : 23 The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.
• Matt 14:4 : 4 because John had repeatedly told him,“It is not lawful for you to have her.”
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith
• Titus 2:15 : 15 So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.
• 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 You should tell him that I am about to judge his house forever because of the sin that he knew about. For his sons were cursing God, and he did not rebuke them.
• 1 Kgs 21:19-20 : 19 Say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood– yes, yours!”’” 20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him,“So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied,“I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Neh 5:7-9 : 7 I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them,“Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly. 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say. 9 Then I said,“The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
• Neh 13:8-9 : 8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom. 9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense. 10 I also discovered that the portions for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields. 11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking,“Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.
• Neh 13:17 : 17 So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them,“What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?
• Neh 13:25 : 25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
• Neh 13:28 : 28 Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.
• Job 29:16-18 : 16 I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know; 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth. 18 Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.