The Meaning of Proverbs 15:31 Explained

Proverbs 15:31

KJV: The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

YLT: An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

Darby: The ear that heareth the reproof of life shall abide among the wise.

ASV: The ear that hearkeneth to the reproof of life Shall abide among the wise.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Proverbs 15:31?

MEANING: What does Proverbs 15:31 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Proverbs 15:31 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Proverbs 15:31?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The ear  that heareth  the reproof  of life  abideth  among  the wise. 

What does Proverbs 15:31 Mean?

Context Summary

Proverbs 15:18-33 - Words In Season
Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Christianity. What best proves a Christian is an even temper. It is told of a Japanese gentleman, who was led by a tract to renounce the use of intoxicants and to accept Jesus Christ, that the immediate effect on his temper was so great that his wife, who had often suffered from his uncontrollable fits of anger, said, "If this is the result of Christianity, I want to become a Christian." When the missionaries afterward visited the place, they found her and ten other persons awaiting baptism.
As these proverbs suggest, the quickest method of overcoming and eradicating the wrong is, in the power of God, to cultivate the right. By this we shall tread the way of the wise that goeth upward toward the heavenly life of the angels, and we shall be saved from a hell of misery. See Proverbs 15:24, r.v. Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3:1. [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 15

1  A gentle answer turns away wrath

What do the individual words in Proverbs 15:31 mean?

The ear that hears the rebukes of life among the wise will abide
אֹ֗זֶן שֹׁ֭מַעַת‪‬ תּוֹכַ֣חַת חַיִּ֑ים בְּקֶ֖רֶב חֲכָמִ֣ים תָּלִֽין

אֹ֗זֶן  The  ear 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֹזֶן  
Sense: ear, as part of the body.
שֹׁ֭מַעַת‪‬  that  hears 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine singular construct
Root: שָׁמַע 
Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
תּוֹכַ֣חַת  the  rebukes 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: תֹּוכֵחָה 
Sense: rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement.
חַיִּ֑ים  of  life 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
חֲכָמִ֣ים  the  wise 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural
Root: חָכָם  
Sense: wise, wise (man).
תָּלִֽין  will  abide 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: לוּן 
Sense: to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide.

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