--- title: "Proverbs 13 - Study King James Bible with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 13 with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary commentary. 1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. 2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the tra" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/keil-and-delitzsch-old-testament-commentary/proverbs/13" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/13)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/13)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/13) Audio 1 A wise son *heareth* his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. 2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of *his* mouth: but the soul of the transgressors *shall eat* violence. 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: *but* he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. 4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and *hath* nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. 5 A righteous *man* hateth lying: but a wicked *man* is loathsome, and cometh to shame. 6 Righteousness keepeth *him that is* upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.* 7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet *hath* nothing: *there is* that maketh himself poor, yet *hath* great riches. 8 The ransom of a man’s life *are* his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. 9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.* 10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised *is* wisdom. 11 Wealth *gotten* by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.* 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but *when* the desire cometh, *it is* a tree of life. 13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.* 14 The law of the wise *is* a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. 15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors *is* hard. 16 Every prudent *man* dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open *his* folly.* 17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador *is* health.* 18 Poverty and shame *shall be to* him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. 19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but *it is* abomination to fools to depart from evil. 20 He that walketh with wise *men* shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.* 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. 22 A good *man* leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner *is* laid up for the just. 23 Much food *is in* the tillage of the poor: but there is *that is* destroyed for want of judgment. 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. 25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. [Proverbs 12](/study/proverbs/12) [Proverbs 14](/study/proverbs/14) ## Commentary To verse 1 The proverb [Proverbs 12:28](/kjv/proverbs/12/28) is so sublime, so weighty, that it manifestly forms a period and conclusion. This is confirmed from the following proverb, which begins like [Proverbs 10:1](/kjv/proverbs/10/1) (cf. 5), and anew stamps the collection as intended for youth: 1 A wise son is his father's correction; But a scorner listens not to rebuke. The lxx, which the Syr. follows, translate Ψἱὸς πανουργὸς ὑπήκοος πατρί , whence it is not to be concluded with Lagarde that they read נוסר in the sense of a *Ni*. *tolerativum*; they correctly understood the text according to the Jewish rule of interpretation, “that which is wanting is to be supplied from the context.” The Targ. had already supplied שׁמע from 1b, and is herein followed by Hitzig, as also by Glassius in the *Philologia sacra*. But such an ellipse is in the Hebr. style without an example, and would be comprehensible only in passionate, hasty discourse, but in a language in which the representation *filius sapiens disciplinam patris audit* numbers among the anomalies is not in general possible, and has not even its parallel in Tacitus, *Ann*. xiii. 56: *deesse nobis terra, in qua vivamus - in qua moriemur, non potest*, because here the primary idea, which the one expression confirms, the other denies, and besides no particle, such as the ו of this passage before us, stands between them. Böttcher therefore maintains the falling out of the verb, and writes יבּין before בּן ; but one says not בין מוסר , but שׁמע מוסר , [Proverbs 1:8](/kjv/proverbs/1/8); [Proverbs 4:1](/kjv/proverbs/4/1); [Proverbs 19:27](/kjv/proverbs/19/27). Should not the clause, as it thus stands, give a sense complete in itself? But מוּסר can hardly, with Schultens and Ewald, be taken as *part*. *Hoph*. of יסר : one brought up by his father, for the usage of the language knows מוסר only as *part. Hoph*. of סוּר . Thus, as Jerome and the *Venet*. translate: a wise son is the correction of his father, *i.e.*, the product of the same, as also Fleischer explains, “Attribution of the cause, the ground, as elsewhere of the effect.” But we call that which one has trained (vegetable or animal) his *Zucht* (= παιδεία in the sense of παίδευμα ). To the wise son ([Proverbs 10:1](/kjv/proverbs/10/1)) who is indebted to the מוסר אב ([Proverbs 4:1](/kjv/proverbs/4/1)), stands opposed the לץ (*vid*., [Proverbs 1:22](/kjv/proverbs/1/22)), the mocker at religion and virtue, who has no ear for גּערה , strong and stern words which awaken in him a wholesome fear (cf. 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