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Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/proverbs/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/proverbs/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked <i>man getteth</i> himself a blot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/proverbs/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked <i>man only</i> harms himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/proverbs/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />One who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And one who rebukes a wicked person <i>gets</i> insults for himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/proverbs/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/proverbs/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man <i>gets</i> insults for himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/proverbs/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />He who disciplines a scoffer receives disgrace for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man <i>receives</i> injury for himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/proverbs/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />He who corrects <i>and</i> instructs a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man gets insults for himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/proverbs/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The one who corrects a mocker will bring abuse on himself; the one who rebukes the wicked will get hurt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/proverbs/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The one who corrects a mocker will bring dishonor on himself; the one who rebukes a wicked man will get hurt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/proverbs/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/proverbs/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Correct a worthless bragger, and all you will get are insults and injuries. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/proverbs/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/proverbs/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Whoever corrects a mocker receives abuse. Whoever warns a wicked person gets hurt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/proverbs/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />If you correct conceited people, you will only be insulted. If you reprimand evil people, you will only get hurt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/proverbs/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/proverbs/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/proverbs/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/proverbs/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/proverbs/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/proverbs/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/proverbs/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />The instructor of a scorner "" Is receiving for it—shame, "" And a reprover of the wicked—his blemish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/proverbs/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/proverbs/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/proverbs/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/proverbs/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Whoever teaches a mocker causes injury to himself. And whoever argues with the impious produces a blemish on himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Whoever corrects the arrogant earns insults; and whoever reproves the wicked incurs opprobrium. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse; whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/proverbs/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Correction for a bad man brings disgrace; the wicked man is rebuked by his own blemish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/proverbs/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />To an evil person, discipline gives disgrace, and it rebukes the vice of the evil one.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/proverbs/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame, And he that reproveth a wicked man, it becometh unto him a blot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/proverbs/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />He that reproves evil <i>men</i> shall get dishonour to himself; and he that rebukes an ungodly <i>man</i> shall disgrace himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/9-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpUA5ZltBeQ?start=1572" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/9.htm">The Way of Wisdom</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.” <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3256.htm" title="3256: yō·sêr (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To discipline, chasten, admonish. A primitive root; to chastise, literally or figuratively; hence, to instruct.">He who corrects</a> <a href="/hebrew/3887.htm" title="3887: lêṣ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to make mouths at, i.e. To scoff; hence to interpret, or intercede.">a mocker</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: lō·qê·aḥ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">brings</a> <a href="/hebrew/7036.htm" title="7036: qā·lō·wn (N-ms) -- Ignominy, dishonor. From qalah; disgrace; the pudenda.">shame</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">on himself;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3198.htm" title="3198: ū·mō·w·ḵî·aḥ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To decide, adjudge, prove. A primitive root; to be right; reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict.">he who rebukes</a> <a href="/hebrew/7563.htm" title="7563: lə·rā·šā‘ (Prep-l:: Adj-ms) -- Wicked, criminal. From rasha'; morally wrong; concretely, an bad person.">a wicked man</a> <a href="/hebrew/3971.htm" title="3971: mū·mōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Blemish, defect. Usually muwm; as if passive participle from an unused root probably meaning to stain; a blemish.">taints himself.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-6.htm">Matthew 7:6</a></span><br />Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/10-14.htm">Matthew 10:14</a></span><br />And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm">Matthew 15:14</a></span><br />Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-1.htm">Matthew 7:1-5</a></span><br />“Do not judge, or you will be judged. / For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. / Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-37.htm">Luke 6:37</a></span><br />Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/10-10.htm">Luke 10:10-11</a></span><br />But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare, / ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-1.htm">2 Timothy 3:1-5</a></span><br />But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm">2 Peter 2:12</a></span><br />These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/13-45.htm">Acts 13:45-46</a></span><br />But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying. / Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14</a></span><br />The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-18.htm">John 15:18-19</a></span><br />If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. / If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/3-19.htm">John 3:19-20</a></span><br />And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. / Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/4-4.htm">1 Peter 4:4</a></span><br />Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28-32</a></span><br />Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/3-13.htm">1 John 3:13</a></span><br />So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/15-12.htm">Proverbs 15:12</a></b></br> A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8,9</a></b></br> Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as <i>is</i> good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/18-17.htm">1 Kings 18:17</a></b></br> And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, <i>Art</i> thou he that troubleth Israel?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm">Abuse</a> <a href="/psalms/112-7.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/job/31-7.htm">Blemish</a> <a href="/psalms/51-9.htm">Blot</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Correcteth</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Corrects</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-33.htm">Dishonor</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm">Gets</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-13.htm">Getteth</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-8.htm">Injury</a> <a href="/genesis/4-22.htm">Instructor</a> <a href="/psalms/69-9.htm">Insult</a> <a href="/psalms/89-50.htm">Insults</a> <a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Invites</a> <a href="/genesis/27-12.htm">Mocker</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/psalms/57-3.htm">Rebukes</a> <a href="/psalms/106-9.htm">Rebuketh</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-3.htm">Receiving</a> <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Reprover</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Reproves</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Reproveth</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-20.htm">Scoffer</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-20.htm">Scorner</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm">Sharp</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-14.htm">Sinner</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-18.htm">Wicked</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/22-10.htm">Abuse</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-5.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/songs/4-7.htm">Blemish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-23.htm">Blot</a> <a href="/job/5-17.htm">Correcteth</a> <a href="/job/5-17.htm">Corrects</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-2.htm">Dishonor</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-4.htm">Gets</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-5.htm">Getteth</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-10.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-6.htm">Injury</a> <a href="/matthew/23-8.htm">Instructor</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-16.htm">Insult</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-31.htm">Insults</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-14.htm">Invites</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Mocker</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-23.htm">Rebukes</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-23.htm">Rebuketh</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-4.htm">Receiving</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-12.htm">Reprover</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-10.htm">Reproves</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-12.htm">Reproveth</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Scoffer</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Scorner</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-13.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Sharp</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-25.htm">Sinner</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-9.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-3.htm">Wicked</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-8.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Proverbs 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/9-1.htm">The discipline</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/9-4.htm">and the doctrine of wisdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/9-13.htm">The custom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/9-16.htm">and error of folly</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase highlights the futility and potential backlash of attempting to correct someone who is not open to learning or change. The mocker is often associated with pride and arrogance, traits that make them resistant to correction. In Proverbs, mockers are contrasted with the wise, who are open to instruction and growth. The cultural context of ancient Israel placed a high value on wisdom and learning, and those who rejected it were seen as foolish. This phrase warns that engaging with such individuals can lead to personal disgrace, as the mocker may respond with hostility or ridicule, reflecting poorly on the one offering correction.<p><b>he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.</b><br>The "wicked man" in this context refers to someone who is morally corrupt and actively engaged in evil deeds. Rebuking such a person can lead to personal defilement, as their response may be aggressive or harmful. The historical context of this proverb suggests that the wicked were often entrenched in their ways, and confronting them could result in negative consequences for the one offering the rebuke. This phrase underscores the importance of discernment in choosing when and whom to correct. It also reflects the broader biblical theme of the separation between righteousness and wickedness, as seen in passages like <a href="/psalms/1.htm">Psalm 1</a>, which contrasts the way of the righteous with the path of the wicked. The warning here is that engaging with the wicked can lead to one's own moral or social contamination, emphasizing the need for wisdom in interactions with those who reject godly principles.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/mocker.htm">Mocker</a></b><br>In the context of Proverbs, a mocker is someone who ridicules or scorns wisdom and instruction. They are often resistant to correction and are characterized by pride and arrogance.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/w/wicked_man.htm">Wicked Man</a></b><br>This refers to someone who is morally wrong or evil, often in opposition to God's ways. The wicked man is not just sinful but also actively rejects righteousness.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>Traditionally considered the author of Proverbs, Solomon was the king of Israel known for his wisdom. His proverbs often provide practical guidance for living a life that honors God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/w/wisdom_literature.htm">Wisdom Literature</a></b><br>Proverbs is part of the wisdom literature in the Bible, which includes books like Job and Ecclesiastes. These writings focus on practical and philosophical aspects of life.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/a/ancient_israel.htm">Ancient Israel</a></b><br>The cultural and historical backdrop of Proverbs, where wisdom was highly valued and seen as a divine gift.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_the_nature_of_a_mocker.htm">Understanding the Nature of a Mocker</a></b><br>A mocker is resistant to correction and often responds with hostility. Engaging with them requires discernment and wisdom.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_risk_of_rebuking_the_wicked.htm">The Risk of Rebuking the Wicked</a></b><br>Correcting a wicked person can lead to personal harm or shame. It is important to assess whether the person is open to change before offering correction.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/w/wisdom_in_correction.htm">Wisdom in Correction</a></b><br>Not all correction is beneficial. Wisdom involves knowing when to speak and when to remain silent, as well as understanding the character of the person being corrected.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/guarding_one's_integrity.htm">Guarding One's Integrity</a></b><br>Engaging with those who reject wisdom can taint one's own reputation and integrity. It is crucial to maintain a godly character in all interactions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/seeking_god's_guidance.htm">Seeking God's Guidance</a></b><br>Prayer and seeking God's wisdom are essential when deciding whether to correct someone. God provides the discernment needed to navigate these situations.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_proverbs_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Proverbs 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_folly.htm">What does the Bible say about foolishness?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_secrets_does_god_reveal.htm">How should we respond to constructive criticism?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_proverbs_22_10_with_love.htm">Proverbs 22:10: How do we reconcile the call to “drive out the mocker” with the New Testament emphasis on love, forgiveness, and inclusion?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_it_wrong_to_question_the_bible.htm">Is questioning the Bible's teachings wrong?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/proverbs/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">He that reproveth a scorner </span>. . .--Wisdom does not address the scoffer, nor the godless: this would be "giving that which is holy unto the dogs, and casting pearls before swine" (<a href="/matthew/7-6.htm" title="Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.">Matthew 7:6</a>). (Comp. our Lord's own plan of teaching by parables, that His hearers might not understand (<a href="/luke/8-10.htm" title="And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.">Luke 8:10</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Getteth to himself shame</span>.--Or, <span class= "ital">insult.</span><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 7-10.</span> - These verses form a parenthesis, showing why Wisdom addresses only the simple and foolish. She giveth not that which is holy unto dogs, nor casteth pearls before swine (<a href="/matthew/7-6.htm">Matthew 7:6</a>). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame.</span> He who tries to correct a scorner (see on Proverbs 1:22 and Proverbs 3:34), one who derides religion, loses his pains and meets with ribald mockery and insult. It is not the fault of messengers or message that this should be, but the hardness of heart and the pride of the hearer make him despise the teaching and hate the teacher (<a href="/matthew/24-9.htm">Matthew 24:9</a>). <span class="cmt_word">He that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot;</span> rather, <span class="accented">he that reproveth a sinner, it is his blot.</span> Such a proceeding results in disgrace to himself. This is not said to discourage the virtuous from reproving transgressors, but states the effect which experience proves to occur in such cases. Prudence, caution, and tact are needed in dealing with these characters. Evil men regard the reprover as a personal enemy, and treat him with contumely, and hence arise unseemly bickerings and disputes, injurious words and deeds. To have wasted teaching on such unreceptive and antagonistic natures is a shameful expenditure of power. St. Gregory thus explains this matter: "It generally happens that when they cannot defend the evils that are reproved in them, they are rendered worse from a feeling of shame, and carry themselves so high in their defence of themselves, that they take out bad points to urge against the life of the reprover, and so they do not account themselves guilty, if they fasten guilty deeds upon the heads of others also. And when they are unable to find true ones, they feign them, that they may also themselves have things they may seem to rebuke with no inferior degree of justice" ('Moral.,' 10:3, Oxford transl.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/proverbs/9-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">He who corrects</span><br /><span class="heb">יֹ֤סֵ֨ר ׀</span> <span class="translit">(yō·sêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3256.htm">Strong's 3256: </a> </span><span class="str2">To discipline, chasten, admonish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a mocker</span><br /><span class="heb">לֵ֗ץ</span> <span class="translit">(lêṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3887.htm">Strong's 3887: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will bring</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹקֵ֣חַֽ</span> <span class="translit">(lō·qê·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> </span><span class="str2">To take</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shame on himself;</span><br /><span class="heb">קָל֑וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(qā·lō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7036.htm">Strong's 7036: </a> </span><span class="str2">Disgrace, the pudenda</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he who rebukes</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמוֹכִ֖יחַ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mō·w·ḵî·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3198.htm">Strong's 3198: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a wicked man</span><br /><span class="heb">לְרָשָׁ֣ע</span> <span class="translit">(lə·rā·šā‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7563.htm">Strong's 7563: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wrong, an, bad person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be tainted.</span><br /><span class="heb">מוּמֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(mū·mōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3971.htm">Strong's 3971: </a> </span><span class="str2">To stain, a blemish</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/proverbs/9-7.htm">Proverbs 9:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/proverbs/9-7.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 9:7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult (Prov. 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