Proverbs 15:10

10 doctrina mala deserenti viam qui increpationes odit morietur

Proverbs 15:10 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 15:10

Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way
The right way, the way of God; the way of his commandments: the Vulgate Latin version is, "the way of life"; the same with the way of righteousness, which apostates, having known and walked in, turn aside from; see ( 2 Peter 2:15 2 Peter 2:21 ) . And such deserve severe correction, the chastisement of a cruel one, correction in wrath and hot displeasure; which, when they have, is very disagreeable to them; they behave under it like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, and yet they are but dealt righteously with. Or the words may be rendered, "he [has had] bad discipline" or "instruction ^F26 that forsakes the way"; due care has not been taken of him; he has not been properly instructed, nor seasonably corrected; had he, he would not easily have departed from the way in which he should go; see ( Proverbs 22:6 ) . The Targum is,

``the discipline of an evil man causes his way to err;''

or him to err from his way; [and] he that hateth reproof shall die;
that hates the reproof of parents, masters, and ministers of the word; as he may be said to do that neglects and rejects it, and does not act agreeably to it: and such a man, dying in impenitence and without faith in Christ, dies in his sins; and sometimes shamefully, or a shameful death, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions, or an untimely one; as well as dies the second death, an eternal one.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (er rowm) "fuit illi mala disciplina, vel castigatio", Baynus.

Proverbs 15:10 In-Context

8 victimae impiorum abominabiles Domino vota iustorum placabilia

9 abominatio est Domino via impii qui sequitur iustitiam diligetur ab eo

10 doctrina mala deserenti viam qui increpationes odit morietur

11 infernus et perditio coram Domino quanto magis corda filiorum hominum

12 non amat pestilens eum qui se corripit nec ad sapientes graditur