Proverbs 15:12 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:12: A scorner is one that not only makes a jest of God and religion, but bids defiance to the methods employed for his conviction and reformation, and, as an evidence of that, 1. He cannot endure the checks of his own conscience, nor will he suffer it to deal plainly with him: He loves not to reprove him (so some read it); he cannot endure...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:12: A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him,.... He that makes a jest of religion; scoffs at godliness and godly men; treats the Gospel and the ministers of it with contempt; makes a mock at good men, and all that is good; a pestilent fellow, as the Vulgate Latin version: such an one not only does not love, for more is intended than is expressed...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:12: (Compare Pro 9:8). go unto the wise--to be instructed.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:12: Pro 15:12 12 The scorner liketh not that one reprove him, To wise men he will not go. The inf. absol., abruptly denoting the action, may take the place of the object, as here (cf. Job 9:18; Isa 42:24), as well as of the subject (Pro 25:27, Job 6:25). Thus הוכיח is (Pro 9:7) construed with the dat. obj.