Pro 15:10 | KD | STEP | Sharp correction is for him who forsaketh the way; Whoever hateth instruction shall die. The way, thus absolute, is the God-pleasing right way ( ), the forsaking of which is visited with the punishment of death, because it is that which leadeth unto life ( ). And that which comes upon them who leave it is called מוּסר רע, castigatio dura , as much as to say that whoever does not welcome instruction, whoever rejects it, must at last receive it against his will in the form of peremptory punishment. The sharp correction (cf. , ) is just the death under which he falls who accepts of no instruction ( ), temporal death, but that as a token of wrath which it is not for the righteous ( ).

‏ Proverbs 15:10

Pro 15:10 10 Sharp correction is for him who forsaketh the way; Whoever hateth instruction shall die.

The way, thus absolute, is the God-pleasing right way (Pro 2:13), the forsaking of which is visited with the punishment of death, because it is that which leadeth unto life (Pro 10:17). And that which comes upon them who leave it is called מוּסר רע, castigatio dura, as much as to say that whoever does not welcome instruction, whoever rejects it, must at last receive it against his will in the form of peremptory punishment. The sharp correction (cf. Isa 28:28, Isa 28:19) is just the death under which he falls who accepts of no instruction (Pro 5:23), temporal death, but that as a token of wrath which it is not for the righteous (Pro 14:32).