Proverbs 15:32 (BSB)

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:32

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:32: See here, 1. The folly of those that will not be taught, that refuse instruction, that will not heed it, but turn their backs upon it, or will not hear it, but turn their hearts against it. They refuse correction (margin); they will not take it, no, not from God himself, but kick against the pricks.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:32: He that refuseth instruction,.... The instruction of parents, masters, ministers, and of God himself; or "correction" (y), instruction either by the word or by the rod; he that withdraws himself from it, will not be in the way of it, that shuns, neglects, and despises it, or carelessly and contemptuously attends it: despiseth his own soul; shows that he makes no account of it, has...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:32: refuseth--or, "neglects," "passes by" (Pro 1:25; Pro 4:15). despiseth . . . soul--so acts as if esteeming its interests of no value.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:32: Pro 15:32 Two proverbs with the catchword מוּסר: 32 He that refuseth correction lightly values his soul; But he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. Regarding פּורע מוּסר, vid., Pro 13:18, cf. Pro 1:25, and מואס נפשׁו, Pro 8:36. נפשׁו contains more than the later expression עצמו, self; it is equivalent to חיּיו (Job 9:21), for the נפשׁ is the bond of union between the intellectual and the corporeal life.