Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
21A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Psalms 90:12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 8:34Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:20
19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again. 1. As we read this, it intimates, in short, that angry men never want woe. Those that are of strong, or rather headstrong, passions, commonly bring themselves and their families into trouble by vexatious suits and quarrels and the provocations they give; they are still smarting, in one instance or other, for their ungoverned heats; and, if their friends deliver them out of one trouble, they will quickly involve… Read the whole commentary →