Proverbs 19:25

PROVERBS—NOTE ON Proverbs 19:25 The simple learn by seeing someone else receive a beating, but the wise learn from a simple word of correction. Notably, although the simple can learn prudence, the scoffer does not have this teachable spirit. (For the difference between the “simple” and the “scoffer” or “fool,” see Introduction: Reading Proverbs.)