Proverbs 13:19
It is delightful to receive what we desire; foolish people hate/refuse to turn away from doing evil.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
In Context
Cross References
Job 28:28And then he said to humans, ‘Listen! To have an awesome respect for me is what will enable you to become wise; and to truly understand everything, you must first turn away from doing what is evil.’”
Psalms 34:14Turn away from doing evil, and do what is good! Always try hard to enable people to live peacefully with each other.
Proverbs 3:7Do not be proud of being wise. Instead, revere Yahweh and turn away from doing evil.
Proverbs 16:6Be loyal to Yahweh and faithfully obey him; if you do that, he will forgive you for having sinned. If we revere him, nothing evil will happen to us (OR, he will prevent evil things from happening to us).
Proverbs 29:10Those who murder others hate people who ◄are honest/always do what is right►, but righteous people try to protect them.
Song of Solomon 3:4As soon as I walked past them, I found the one whom I love. I clung to him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room where my mother had conceived me (OR, where I was born).
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:19
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. Note, 1. He that is so proud that he scorns to be taught will certainly be abased. He that refuses the good instruction offered him, as if it were a reflection upon his honour and an abridgment of his liberty, poverty and shame shall be to him: he will become a beggar and live and die in disgrace; every one will despise him as foolish, and stubborn, and ungovernable. 2. He that is so humble that he… Read the whole commentary →