Proverbs 19:20
Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you'll eventually become wise.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19People who often get angry have to pay the penalty; if you help them, you'll have to do it again.
21Human beings make many plans in their minds, but the final decision is the Lord's.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count Jacob's descendants? They are so many they're like dust! Who can count even a quarter of the Israelites? I would like to die as a good person dies! Let the end of my life be like their end!”
Deuteronomy 32:29How I wish they were wise, so they could understand it; they would recognize what was going to happen to them.
Psalms 90:12Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!
Proverbs 1:2They are for achieving wisdom and instruction, and to recognize sayings that bring insight.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept what I say and value my instructions,
Proverbs 8:34Happy are those who listen to me, watching for me every day at my doors, waiting at my entrance way.
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 →