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A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:5 tn Heb “is prudent” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NCV, NLT “is wise.” Anyone who accepts correction or rebuke will become prudent in life.

An ignorant fool spurns his father’s discipline,
But he who keeps reproof is prudent.

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20 A wise child[a] brings joy to his father,
but a foolish person[b] despises[c] his mother.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:20 tn Heb “son.”
  2. Proverbs 15:20 tn Heb “a fool of a man,” a genitive of specification.
  3. Proverbs 15:20 sn The proverb is almost the same as 10:1, except that “despises” replaces “grief.” This adds the idea of the callousness of the one who inflicts grief on his mother (D. Kidner, Proverbs [TOTC], 116).

20 A (A)wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man (B)despises his mother.

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