Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19Whoever is impatient will sustain damage. And when it has been taken away, he will set up another.
21There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can number the dust that is Jacob, and who can know the number of the stock of Israel? May my soul die a just death, and may my end be like theirs.”
Deuteronomy 32:29I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’
Psalms 90:12With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.
Proverbs 1:2in order to know wisdom and discipline,
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.
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 →