Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away he shall add another thing.
21There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.
Deuteronomy 32:29O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
Psalms 90:12can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom, and instruction:
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth 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 →