Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.
21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
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 →