Proverbs 13:14
The instruction of the wise is a source of life, [teaching] to avoid the snares of death.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
In Context
15Good intelligence giveth grace; but the way of the treacherous is hard.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:6The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me:
Psalms 116:3The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow:
Proverbs 10:11A source of life is the mouth of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 15:24The path of life [leadeth] upward for the intelligent, in order that he may avoid the nether world beneath.
Proverbs 16:17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he preserveth his soul that watcheth his way.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:14
13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. Here is, 1. The character of one that is marked for ruin: He that despises the word of God, and has no regard to it, no veneration for it, nor will be ruled by it, certainly he shall be destroyed, for he slights that which is the only means of curing a destructive disease and makes himself obnoxious to that divine wrath which will certainly be his destruction. Those that prefer the rules of carnal policy before… Read the whole commentary →