Proverbs 13:19
The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate them that flee from evil things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
In Context
20He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.
Cross References
Job 28:28And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.
Psalms 34:14Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 3:7I Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:
Proverbs 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Proverbs 29:10Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.
Song of Solomon 3:4When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:19
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. Note, 1. He that is so proud that he scorns to be taught will certainly be abased. He that refuses the good instruction offered him, as if it were a reflection upon his honour and an abridgment of his liberty, poverty and shame shall be to him: he will become a beggar and live and die in disgrace; every one will despise him as foolish, and stubborn, and ungovernable. 2. He that is so humble that he… Read the whole commentary →