Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding gives grace, || And the way of the treacherous [is] hard.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, || To turn aside from snares of death.
16Every prudent one deals with knowledge, || And a fool spreads out folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And David is acting wisely in all his ways, and YHWH [is] with him,
Psalms 111:10The fear of YHWH [is] the beginning of wisdom, || Good understanding have all doing them, || His praise [is] standing forever!
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:10Discipline [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, || Whoever is hating reproof dies.
Luke 2:52and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with God and men.
Romans 6:21What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [is] death.
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 →