Proverbs 13:15
Sound discretion gives favour, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.
Brenton Septuagint
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: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.
16Every prudent man acts with knowledge: but the fool displays his own mischief.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And David was prudent in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
Psalms 111:10The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish.
Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.
Proverbs 15:10The instruction of the simple is known by them that pass by; but they that hate reproofs die disgracefully.
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 →