Proverbs 13:19
To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
In Context
20Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Cross References
Job 28:28And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
Psalms 34:14\34:13\Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.
Proverbs 3:7Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Proverbs 16:6By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.
Proverbs 29:10Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.
Song of Solomon 3:4I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:19
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. Note, 1. He that is so proud that he scorns to be taught will certainly be abased. He that refuses the good instruction offered him, as if it were a reflection upon his honour and an abridgment of his liberty, poverty and shame shall be to him: he will become a beggar and live and die in disgrace; every one will despise him as foolish, and stubborn, and ungovernable. 2. He that is so humble that he… Read the whole commentary →