Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wise	חָ֭כָם Cha.khom	H2450	wise · adjective, masculine singular absolute
son	בֵּ֣ן ben	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
father’s	אָ֑ב 'Av	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular absolute
instruction	מ֣וּסַר Mu.sar	H4148	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
scorner	וְ֝לֵ֗ץ ve.Letz	H3887	properly · conjunction + adjective, masculine singular absolute
heareth	שָׁמַ֥ע sha.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
rebuke	גְּעָרָֽה ge.'a.Rah	H1606	a chiding · noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 9:7-8 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 4:1-14 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding the…
Proverbs 4:20-22 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Isaiah 28:14-15 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

John Gill on Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heareth his father's instruction,.... As he should, and has good reason to do; since it must be cordial, faithful, and disinterested, as well as the effect of age and experience. He "asks for it" and "loves" it, as Jarchi supplies the text; he likes and approves of it, is well pleased with it, and delights in it; seeing it tends to his profit and advantage; he "receives" it, as the Targum, so Ben Melech; he listens to and obeys it, and acts agreeably to it, which shows him to be wise; and this is the way to be wiser and wiser. So one that is spiritually wise will attend to and receive the instruction of Wisdom or Christ; who stands in the relation of an everlasting fin, her to his…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 13:1

The proverb Pro 12:28 is so sublime, so weighty, that it manifestly forms a period and conclusion. This is confirmed from the following proverb, which begins like Pro 10:1 (cf. 5), and anew stamps the collection as intended for youth: 1 A wise son is his father's correction; But a scorner listens not to rebuke. The lxx, which the Syr. follows, translate Ψἱὸς πανουργὸς ὑπήκοος πατρί, whence it is not to be concluded with Lagarde that they read נוסר in the sense of a Ni. tolerativum; they correctly understood the text according to the Jewish rule of interpretation, "that which is wanting is to be supplied from the context." The Targ. had already supplied שׁמע from 1b, and is herein follo…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 13:1

A wise child accepts a parent’s discipline: Gaining wisdom requires discipline and correction.

Rashi on Proverbs 13:1

A wise son... his father’s discipline This is an elliptical verse: a wise son asks for and loves his father’s discipline. Some say: Because of the father’s discipline, he is wise. but a scorner does not listen to rebuke For he does not accept reproof.

The Church Fathers

"A wise son is the instruction of a father," etc. There is such a great difference between the wise and the foolish man, that the latter, at some point, arrives to teach even the one who had taught him with the advantage of learning, while the former, when reproved, does not know how to listen.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Dictionary and topics

Children, Good · Attend to parental teaching — Attend to parental teaching
Scoffing · 21:14,15;34:7; — 21:14,15;34:7;
Scorning And Mocking · Those who are addicted to: Hear not rebuke — Those who are addicted to: Hear not rebuke
Young Men · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).