Proverbs 15:32 - Exposition

This verse carries on and puts the climax to the lesson of the preceding. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul; "hateth himself," Septuagint; commits moral suicide, because he does not follow the path of life. He is like a sick man who thrusts away the wholesome medicine which is his only hope of cure. He that heareth (listeneth to) reproof getteth understanding ; literally, possesseth a heart, and therefore does not despise his soul, but "loves it" ( Proverbs 19:8 ), as the LXX . renders.