Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 wrath shall suffer punishment; for if thou interpose, thou wilt add thereto.
21There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!
Deuteronomy 32:29If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding;
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 8:34Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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 →