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Proverbs 15:5

The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 15:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

A fool despiseth his father's instruction (): but he that regardeth reproof is prudent (). The son who attends to his father's reproof dealeth prudently, or becomes wiser. Astutior fiet, Vulgate; πανουργότερος, Septuagint.

The Vulgate has here a distich which is not in the Hebrew, but a similar paragraph is found in the Septuagint. Thus Vulgate, "In the abundance of righteousness virtue is greatest; but the imaginations of the wicked shall be rooted up;" Septuagint, "In the abundance of righteousness is much strength; but the impious shall be destroyed from the very root."

The addition seems to have been an explanation of the following verse, which has been foisted into the text here.

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