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The chapter closes with its hardest verse: Stripes that wound scour away evil, and strokes reach the innermost parts (v. 30). Proverbs 20:30 ends on the language of physical correction.
Stripes that wound describe painful, costly, unwelcome correction. Solomon's claim is that real wounding sometimes scours away evil that nothing else can reach. Some forms of moral corruption are so deep that gentle reminder cannot dislodge them.
Strokes reach the innermost parts. The same word that named the innermost parts searched by the lamp in verse 27 returns here, now reached by correction. The same principle holds in the discipline a wise father administers (Proverbs 13:24) and in the discipline the LORD administers to those He loves (Hebrews 12:5-11). The chapter ends here on a heavy note, fitting for a chapter that has spent thirty verses showing how serious wisdom actually is.
Used with permission from TheBibleSays.com.
You can access the original article here:Proverbs 20:30 Meaning
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