Proverbs 15:19
The ways of sluggards are strewn with thorns; but those of the diligent are made smooth.
LXX2012 (British)
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 wise son gladdens his father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother.
Cross References
Numbers 14:1And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.
Psalms 5:8Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make my way plain before your face. 1
Psalms 25:12My foot stands in + 25:12 Gr. in evenness or uprightness. an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly + 3:6 Gr. divide. See 2 Tim 2:13. direct your paths.
Proverbs 8:9They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.
Proverbs 22:5Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.
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 →