Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful is like a hedge of thorns. The way of the just is without offense.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
In Context
18A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.
20A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
Cross References
Numbers 14:1And so, crying out, the entire crowd wept throughout that night.
Psalms 5:8But I am in the multitude of your mercy. I will enter your house. I will show adoration toward your holy temple, in your fear.
Psalms 25:12My foot has stood firm in the straight path. In the churches, I will bless you, O Lord.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
Proverbs 8:9They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.
Proverbs 22:5Weapons and swords are on the way of the perverse. But he who guards his own soul withdraws far from them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:19
18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Here is, 1. Passion the great make-bate. Thence come wars and fightings. Anger strikes the fire which sets cities and churches into a flame: A wrathful man, with his peevish passionate reflections, stirs up strife, and sets people together by the ears; he gives occasion to others to quarrel, and takes the occasion that others give, though ever so trifling. When men carry their resentments too far, one quarrel still produces… Read the whole commentary →