Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel and receive instruction, || So that you are wise in your latter end.
Literal Standard Version
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 is bearing punishment, || For if you deliver, yet again you add.
21The purposes in a man’s heart [are] many, || And the counsel of YHWH—it stands.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who has counted the dust of Jacob, || And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, || And let my last end be like his!”
Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, || They would deal wisely [with] this, || They would attend to their latter end!
Psalms 90:12Let [us] know to number our days correctly, || And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2For knowing wisdom and instruction, || For understanding sayings of intelligence,
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,
Proverbs 8:34O the blessedness of the man listening to me, || To watch at my doors day by day, || To watch at the doorposts of my entrance.
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 →