Commentaire sur Les Proverbes 12:8

According to his intelligence a man is praised Whether he possesses little or much intelligence, he will receive his reward according to his intelligence.

but he whose heart has turned away He who moved his heart completely away from the Torah will be despised.

Heb. נעוה, as in (Isa. 21:3): “I have become confused (נעויתי) from hearing,” and similarly (I Sam. 20:30): “the son of a straying (נעות) woman deserving of punishment.” And it is possible to say that נעוה means one whose heart has strayed, from the expression נע ונד, moving and wandering, and as one says זעוה, horror, from the root זע, stirred.