Proverbs 13:15
People respect those who have good sense, but those who cannot be trusted are on the road to being ruined/destroyed (OR, will have a lot of difficulties/troubles).
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14he always had great success, because Yahweh was helping him.
Psalms 111:10Revering Yahweh is the way to become wise. All those who obey his commands will know what is good for them to decide to do. We should praise him forever!
Proverbs 4:19But the behavior of wicked people is like deep/thick darkness. Because it is very dark, they cannot see the things that cause them to stumble.
Proverbs 15:10Those who do what is wrong will be severely punished; those who do not want to be corrected will die.
Luke 2:52As the years passed, Jesus continued to become wiser and he grew taller. God and people continued to approve of him more and more.
Romans 6:21Nevertheless, doing those things resulted in your being separated from God, so you did not benefit at all from doing the sinful things that you are now ashamed of. [RHQ]
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 →