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Proverbs 15

Prov. 15:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A scorner
luwts (Hebrew #3887)
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Pronounce: loots
Origin: a primitive root
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'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
not one that reproveth
yakach (Hebrew #3198)
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
KJV usage: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
Pronounce: yaw-kahh'
Origin: a primitive root
him: neither will he go
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
e unto the wise
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
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Amos 5:10• 10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Amos 5:10)
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2 Tim. 4:3• 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (2 Tim. 4:3)
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Job 21:14• 14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (Job 21:14)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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scorner.
Prov. 15:10• 10Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. (Prov. 15:10)
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Prov. 9:7‑8• 7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:7‑8)
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Amos 5:10• 10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Amos 5:10)
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John 3:18‑21• 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
 19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
 20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
 21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:18‑21)
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John 7:7• 7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. (John 7:7)
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2 Tim. 4:3• 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (2 Tim. 4:3)
neither.
2 Chron. 18:7• 7And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. (2 Chron. 18:7)
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Job 21:14• 14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (Job 21:14)
• It is only the scorner who resents correction and reproof, and hence avoids the wise, lest his evil ways be called in question. But One he cannot avoid. With Him he must have to do whether he will or no. (“Proverbs Fifteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise.