Proverbs 14:15
The simple gives credence to everything, || And the prudent attends to his step.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
14The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, || And a good man—from his fruits.
16The wise is fearing and turning from evil, || And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And David says to the youth who is declaring [it] to him, “How have you known that Saul and his son Jonathan [are] dead?”
Nehemiah 6:4And they send to me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way, || And the folly of fools [is] deceit.
Proverbs 27:12The prudent has seen the evil, he is hidden, || The simple have passed on, they are punished.
Acts 13:7who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God,
Ephesians 4:14that we may no longer be children, being tossed by waves and being carried around by every wind of the teaching, in the cunning of men, in craftiness, to the scheming of leading astray,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:15
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them. They would not leave their brutish lusts and passions, and therefore they shall stick by them, to their… Read the whole commentary →