Proverbs 13:15
Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
16The prudent mall doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
Psalms 111:10the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
Proverbs 15:10Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.
Luke 2:52And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and men.
Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you 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 →