Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
New American Standard Bible
Than a hundred blows into a fool.
King James Version
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Holman Bible
more than a hundred lashes into a fool.
International Standard Version
A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool.
A Conservative Version
A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
American Standard Version
A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Amplified
A reprimand goes deeper into one who has understanding and a teachable spirit
Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Bible in Basic English
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Darby Translation
A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Julia Smith Translation
A reproof will take hold upon, him understanding more than a hundred, blows the foolish.
King James 2000
A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
Modern King James verseion
A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
One reproof only doth more good to him that hath understanding, than a hundred stripes unto a fool.
NET Bible
A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.
New Heart English Bible
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
The Emphasized Bible
A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!
Webster
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
World English Bible
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Themes
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Reproof » Declared to be » More profitable to saints, than stripes to a fool
Interlinear
Nachath
Biyn
me'ah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
9 Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend. 10 Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool. 11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.
Cross References
Psalm 141:5
The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.
Proverbs 9:8-9
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son -- the instruction of a father, And a scorner -- he hath not heard rebuke.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 19:25
A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.
Proverbs 27:22
If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
Proverbs 29:19
By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.
Revelation 3:19
'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;