Proverbs 9:8 (BSB)

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 9:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-12: Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:8: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee,.... For wicked men are apt to hate those that publicly rebuke them, Amo 5:10. Hence minister's of the word are of all men most hated; though this also should be bore with, could it be thought, or there was any reason to believe, that the reproof would be of any service.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 9:8: Reprove not a scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. (h) Meaning them who are incorrigible, which Christ calls dogs and swine: or he speaks this in comparison, not that the wicked should not be rebuked, but he shows their malice, and the small hope of the profit.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 9:7-9: Pro 9:7-9 In what now follows the discourse of Wisdom is continued; wherefore she directs her invitation to the simple, i.e., those who have not yet decided, and are perhaps susceptible of that which is better: 7 “He who correcteth a scorner draweth upon himself insult; And he who communicateth instruction to a scorner, it is a dishonour to him.