Verse 12

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:5 : 5 May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. 9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
  • Prov 9:8 : 8 Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.
  • Prov 15:31-32 : 31 The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise. 32 The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees– the LORD has made them both.
  • Prov 27:5-6 : 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.
  • 1 Sam 25:31-34 : 31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the LORD has granted my lord success, please remember your servant.” 32 Then David said to Abigail,“Praised be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me! 33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands! 34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
  • Job 42:11 : 11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.