Proverbs 9:8
New International Version
Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.

New Living Translation
So don’t bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you. But correct the wise, and they will love you.

English Standard Version
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

King James Bible
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

New King James Version
Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

New American Standard Bible
Do not rebuke a scoffer, or he will hate you; Rebuke a wise person and he will love you.

NASB 1995
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

NASB 1977
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you, Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

Amplified Bible
Do not correct a scoffer [who foolishly ridicules and takes no responsibility for his error] or he will hate you; Correct a wise man [who learns from his error], and he will love you.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

American Standard Version
Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not rebuke an evil one, lest he hate you, but rebuke a wise one, for he will love you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Contemporary English Version
Any bragger you correct will only hate you. But if you correct someone who has common sense, you will be loved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Rebuke not a scorner lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

English Revised Version
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not warn a mocker, or he will hate you. Warn a wise person, and he will love you.

Good News Translation
Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.

International Standard Version
Don't rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Literal Standard Version
Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you, | Give reproof to the wise, and he loves you.

Majority Standard Bible
Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

New American Bible
Do not reprove the arrogant, lest they hate you; reprove the wise, and they will love you.

NET Bible
Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.

New Revised Standard Version
A scoffer who is rebuked will only hate you; the wise, when rebuked, will love you.

New Heart English Bible
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Reprove not a scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

World English Bible
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Young's Literal Translation
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

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Context
The Way of Wisdom
7He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself. 8Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.…

Cross References
Matthew 7:6
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.

Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:8
A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heeds his father's discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 15:12
A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

Proverbs 19:25
Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.

Isaiah 36:21
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, "Do not answer him."


Treasury of Scripture

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

reprove

Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Numbers 14:6-10
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: …

rebuke

Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Proverbs 28:23
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

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Verse 8. - Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee (see the last note, and comp. Proverbs 15:12, and note there). There are times when reproof only hardens and exasperates. "It is not proper," says St. Gregory, "for the good man to fear lest the scorner should utter abuse at him when he is chidden, but lest, being drawn into hatred, he should be made worse" ('Moral.,' 8:67). "Bad men sometimes we spare, and not ourselves, if from the love of those we cease from the rebuking of them. Whence it is needful that we sometimes endure keeping to ourselves what they are, in order that they may learn in us by our good living what they are not" (ibid., 20:47, Oxford transl.). Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. So Psalm 141:5, "Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; let not my head refuse it" (comp. Proverbs 19:25; Proverbs 25:12; Proverbs 27:6).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

rebuke
תּ֣וֹכַח (tō·w·ḵaḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

a mocker
לֵ֭ץ (lêṣ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3887: Ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker

or
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

he will hate you;
יִשְׂנָאֶ֑ךָּ (yiś·nā·’e·kā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8130: To hate

rebuke
הוֹכַ֥ח (hō·w·ḵaḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

a wise man,
לְ֝חָכָ֗ם (lə·ḥā·ḵām)
Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2450: Wise

and he will love you.
וְיֶאֱהָבֶֽךָּ׃ (wə·ye·’ĕ·hā·ḇe·kā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f


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