Proverbs 13:15
Good vnderstandyng geueth fauour: but harde is the way of the dispisers.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The lawe of the wise is a well of life, to auoyde from the snares of death.
16A wise man doth all thynges with discretion: but a foole wyll declare his follie.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:19But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall.
Proverbs 15:10Correction is greeuous vnto hym that forsaketh the way: and who so hateth correction shall dye.
Luke 2:52And Iesus increased in wisedome and stature, and in fauour with God & men.
Romans 6:21What fruite had ye then in those thynges, wherof ye are nowe ashamed? For the ende of those thynges, 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 →