Proverbs 19:20
Pay attention when people give you good advice and learn from them, in order that you will become wise for the rest of your life.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
21People plan to do many kinds of things, but what will happen is what Yahweh has decided will happen.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10◄Who can count the descendants of Jacob; they are as numerous as particles of <dust/dirt>?/No one can count the descendants of Jacob; they are as numerous as particles of <dust/dirt>!► [RHQ] ◄Who can count even a quarter of the Israeli people?/No one can count even a quarter of the Israeli people!► [RHQ] I wish/hope that I will die like righteous people die; I hope that I will die peacefully like they will die.”
Deuteronomy 32:29If you were wise, you would understand why you would be punished; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
Psalms 90:12So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may use our time wisely.
Proverbs 1:2◄These proverbs [PRS] can teach people/By studying these proverbs, people can learn► how to be wise and how to obey what these proverbs teach them. They will also help people to understand which teachings are wise.
Proverbs 2:1My son, listen to what I say, and consider my instructions to be as valuable as [MET] a treasure.
Proverbs 8:34I am pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting for me to come out.
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 →