A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scorner hears not rebuke.
A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scorner hears not rebuke.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
A WISE son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction - The child that has had a proper nurturing, will profit by his father's counsels; but the child that is permitted to fulfill its own will and have its own way, will jest at the reproofs of its parents.
Heareth - The verb of the second clause is inserted in the first, just as in the next verse that of the first is inserted in the second. Stress is laid upon the obstinacy of the scorner who refuses to hear, not only "instruction," but also the much stronger "rebuke."