Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The teaching of the wise [man] is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
16Every prudent [man] acteth with knowledge; but the foolish layeth open [his] folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And David prospered in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him.
Psalms 111:10The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do [his precepts]: his praise abideth for ever.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:10Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.
Luke 2:52And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.
Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:15
14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. By the law of the wise and righteous, here, we may understand either the principles and rules by which they govern themselves or (which comes all to one) the instructions which they give to others, which ought to be as a law to all about them; and if they be so, 1. They will be constant springs of comfort and satisfaction, as a fountain of life, sending forth streams of living water; the closer we keep to those rules the more… Read the whole commentary →