Proverbios 13:1

1 El hijo sabio toma el castigo del padre; mas el burlador no escucha la reprensión

Proverbios 13:1 Meaning and Commentary

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 children; whose instruction is the doctrine of the Gospel; which a wise man hears, so as to understand it; to love and like it, and approve of it; cordially to embrace and obey it, and put it in practice; see ( Matthew 7:24 ) . The word also signifies "correction" ^F19, because instruction often comes by it; and he that is a wise man will hear the rod and him that has appointed it, and learn to know his mind by it, and receive instruction from it: or is "chastised by his father" {t}, and takes it well, ( Micah 6:9 ) ; but a scorner heareth not rebuke;
that is, a son who is a scorner, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; one that makes a mock at sin, and scoffs at religion: such a man will be so far from hearing, attending to, and receiving the rebuke and reproof of his father, that he will scoff also at that; such as were the sons in law of Lot, and the sons of Eli and Samuel. So scornful men, that make a jest of everything that is sacred, will not hearken to the reproof of God's word, to the rebukes of Gospel ministers, or even to the rebukes of Providence, which will issue in their destruction, ( Proverbs 5:11 Proverbs 5:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (rowm) "obedivit castigationem", Baynus, so Gejerus.
F20 "Castigatur a patre, vel castigatus patris", Scultens, so De Dieu.

Proverbios 13:1 In-Context

1 El hijo sabio toma el castigo del padre; mas el burlador no escucha la reprensión

2 Del fruto de su boca el hombre comerá bien; mas el alma de los prevaricadores morirá de hambre

3 El que guarda su boca guarda su alma; mas el que mucho abre sus labios tendrá calamidad

4 El alma del perezoso desea, y nada alcanza; mas el alma de los diligentes será engordada

5 El justo aborrece la palabra de mentira; mas el impío se hace odioso y abominable