Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

General references

Bible References

Wise

Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

But

Proverbs 9:7
He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sins against another, God shall judge him, but if a man sins against LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they did not hearken to the voice of their father, because LORD intended to kill them.
Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

General references

Ruth 2:23
So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.
Jeremiah 35:8
And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,