Proverbs 9:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

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  • Ps 141:5 : 5 The righteous doth beat me `in' kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer `is' about their vexations.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
  • Prov 13:18 : 18 Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.
  • 1 Kgs 1:23 : 23 and they declare to the king, saying, `Lo, Nathan the prophet;' and he cometh in before the king, and boweth himself to the king, on his face to the earth.
  • 1 Kgs 1:32 : 32 And king David saith, `Call for me for Zadok the priest, and for Nathan the prophet, and for Benaiah son of Jehoiada;' and they come in before the king.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.
  • Num 14:6-9 : 6 And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments, 7 and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, `is' a very very good land; 8 if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey; 9 only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they `are'; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah `is' with us; fear them not.' 10 And all the company say to stone them with stones, and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the sons of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 And Nathan saith unto David, `Thou `art' the man! Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such `things'. 9 `Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. 10 `And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife; 11 thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; 12 for thou hast done `it' in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.' 13 And David saith unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Jehovah.' And Nathan saith unto David, `Also -- Jehovah hath caused thy sin to pass away; thou dost not die; 14 only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
  • Prov 23:9 : 9 In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
  • Prov 28:23 : 23 Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
  • Gal 2:11-14 : 11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, 12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, 13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 5 and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. 7 For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, 8 and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;
  • 2 Pet 3:15-16 : 15 and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you, 16 as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 9:6-7
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    6Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

    7The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.

  • Prov 15:12
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    12A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

  • Prov 19:25
    79%

    25A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

  • Prov 13:1
    77%

    1A wise son -- the instruction of a father, And a scorner -- he hath not heard rebuke.

  • Prov 12:1
    76%

    1Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof `is' brutish.

  • Prov 17:9-10
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    9Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

    10Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

  • Prov 29:8-9
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    8Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

    9A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

  • Prov 14:6
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    6A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent `is' easy.

  • Prov 21:11
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    11When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge.

  • Prov 13:18
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    18Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

  • Prov 22:10
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    10Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

  • Prov 15:31-32
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    72%

    31An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

    32Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

  • Prov 15:10
    72%

    10Chastisement `is' grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

  • Eccl 7:5
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    5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,

  • Prov 28:23
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    23Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

  • Prov 12:8
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    8According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

  • Prov 9:12
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    12If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest `it'.

  • Prov 24:9
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    9The thought of folly `is' sin, And an abomination to man `is' a scorner.

  • Prov 10:17
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    17A traveller to life `is' he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

  • Prov 5:12
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    12And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

  • Prov 1:22-23
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    70%

    22`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

    23Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

  • Job 13:9-10
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    9Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

    10He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

  • Prov 24:25
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    25And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

  • Prov 3:11
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    11Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,

  • Prov 27:5
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    5Better `is' open reproof than hidden love.

  • Prov 10:8
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    8The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

  • Prov 25:12
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    12A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, `Is' the wise reprover to an attentive ear.

  • Prov 14:17
    69%

    17Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

  • Prov 8:33
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    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 29:1
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    1A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

  • Prov 15:1
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    1A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

  • Prov 1:5
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    5(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

  • Prov 1:25
    67%

    25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

  • Prov 19:29
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    29Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!