Proverbs 15:5 (BSB)

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:5: Hence, 1. Let superiors be admonished to give instruction and reproof to those that are under their charge, as they will answer it in the day of account. They must not only instruct with the light of knowledge, but reprove with the heat of zeal; and both these must be done with the authority and affection of a father, and must be continued, though the...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:5: A fool despiseth his father's instruction,.... They are fools that despise any instruction that is wise, good, and profitable; and especially a father's instruction, whose love, tender affection, and care, will not suffer him, knowingly, to give any but what is good and wholesome: wherefore to despise it is not only a contempt of his authority, but a slight of his love; which are both...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:5: (Compare Pro 4:1; Pro 10:17; Pro. 13:1-18). is prudent--acts discreetly.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:5: Pro 15:5 5 A fool despiseth his father’s correction; But he that regardeth reproof is prudent. We may with equal correctness translate: he acts prudently (after 1Sa 23:22); and, he is prudent (after Pro 19:25). We prefer, with Jerome, Venet., and Luther, the latter, against the lxx, Syr., and Targ., because, without a doubt, the יערם is so thought of at Pro 19:25 : the...