Proverbs 15:19
The derech (road) of the atzel (sluggard, lazy one) is a thorny hedge, 1 but the orach yesharim (way of the upright) is a highway. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
In Context
20A ben chacham maketh glad an av, 1 but a kesil adam despiseth immo. 1
Cross References
Numbers 14:1And Kol HaEdah lifted up their voice, and cried; and HaAm wept that night.
Psalms 5:8But as for me, I will come 1 into Thy Bais in the multitude of Thy chesed; 1 and in Thy fear will I bow down 1 toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh. 1
Psalms 25:12[Mem] What man is he that feareth Hashem? 1 Him shall He teach in the Derech that he shall choose. 1
Proverbs 3:6In all thy drakhim acknowledge Him, 1 and He shall make yosher thy orkhot (paths). 1
Proverbs 8:9They are all correct to him that discerneth, 1 and yesharim (straight ones) to them that find da'as (knowledge). 1
Proverbs 22:5Thorns and pachim (snares) are in the derech of the crooked; 1 he that is shomer over his nefesh shall be far from them. 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:19
18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Here is, 1. Passion the great make-bate. Thence come wars and fightings. Anger strikes the fire which sets cities and churches into a flame: A wrathful man, with his peevish passionate reflections, stirs up strife, and sets people together by the ears; he gives occasion to others to quarrel, and takes the occasion that others give, though ever so trifling. When men carry their resentments too far, one quarrel still produces… Read the whole commentary →