BIBLE COMMENTARY/Proverbs 19: 29

PROVERBS 19: 29 – Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

– Everyone knows scoffing is not nice (Proverbs 14: 6) and no one wants to be reacted to that way (Proverbs 24: 9). That’s why scoffers are not always welcome into a circle of friends (Psalm 1: 1, Proverbs 22: 10).
– Christians should try our best to avoid having such manner (Proverbs 9: 12). Even when we speak about people who hates us or is an enemy to Christianity, we should keep our words clear and clean, never use filthy or dirty words (Jude 1: 9).
– This verse lets us know that God already has punishments for such bad manners (Proverbs 3: 34) and we certainly don’t want to be at the end of it. Our manner should be suitable to glorify God and to be good example for the world (Colossians 4: 6). God will reward us with His blessings when we live for Him and for those who are in search of eternal salvation.

QUOTED VERSES:

PSALM 1: 1 – Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

PROVERBS 3: 34 – Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

PROVERBS 9: 12 – If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

PROVERBS 14: 6 – A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

PROVERBS 22: 10 – Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

PROVERBS 24: 9 – The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

COLOSSIANS 4: 6 – Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

JUDE 1: 9 – Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.