Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
16Every prudent man dealeth with forethought; but a fool unfoldeth folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And David had great success in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
Psalms 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do thereafter; His praise endureth for ever.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:10There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; and he that hateth reproof shall die.
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 →