Proverbs 29 Bible study: Where there is no revelation

The chapter opens with a man who won't be corrected: "He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy" (29:1) (tap stiffens, remedy). In Hebrew often rebuked is ish tokhachot, a man and the plural of tokhachat, the word of Wisdom's "Turn at my reproof" (Proverbs 1:23) (tap correction in 29:15). Here is what almost everyone misses: correction runs all through the chapter. "The rod of correction gives wisdom" (29:15), where correction is tokhachat again (tap rod). "Correct your son, and he will give you peace" (29:17) (tap Correct). "A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond" (29:19). Correct in 29:17 and corrected in 29:19 are one Hebrew verb, yasar. The chapter begins with one who is rebuked and still stiffens his neck (29:1), and later speaks of one who "understands, yet he will not respond" (29:19).

חָזוֹןchazonsay kha-ZONE

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "vision", and among its uses "divine communication in a vision, oracle, prophecy". Strong's: "a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle", and it gives the word as "from 2372", the verb of "Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?" (29:20). "Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint" (29:18). The Hebrew Bible has it 35 times, and Proverbs only here. The first is "There were not many visions, then" (1 Samuel 3:1). Two other verses have it with torah, the law of 29:18's second half: "Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD" (Lamentations 2:9), after "where the law is not" (Lamentations 2:9), and "They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest" (Ezekiel 7:26). The revelation of "The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the revelation" (Proverbs 30:1) is another Hebrew word.