Proverbs 14:15
The simple believeth every word; but the prudent [man] heedeth his going.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
16A wise [man] feareth and departeth from evil; but the foolish is overbearing and confident.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
Nehemiah 6:4And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way; but the folly of the foolish is deceit.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
Acts 13:7who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to [him], desired to hear the word of God.
Ephesians 4:14in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:15
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them. They would not leave their brutish lusts and passions, and therefore they shall stick by them, to their… Read the whole commentary →