Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 9:8

8 Reprove not a scorner , lest he hate thee : rebake a wise man , and he will love thee .

An obstinate and incorrigible sinner who scornfully rejects and despiseth the means of amendment. Thus Physicians deny Physick to Persons in desperate condition.

Whereby thou wilt not onely expose thy self without necessity to his malice and rage, but also make thy self utterly uncapable of doing him that good which possibly thou mightest do by other more prudent and proper means.

Who is opposed to the Scorner, to intimate that Scorners, howsoever they are thought by themselves or others to be witty or wise, yet in God's account, and in truth, are fools.

Both for that faithfulness and charity which he perceiveth in thee, and for that benefit which he receiveth from thee.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters]at. 7. 6.