A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction - whether through carelessness, sloth, or love of pleasure or gain. A father is instanced as representative of monitors of every kind, on account of his special authority, as also because of the love which prompts a father's 'disciplinary instruction' (so the Hebrew).

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