Proverbs 19:20
Listen to advice and accept instruction, 1 so you may become wise by the end of your life. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
21Many are the plans in a person's heart, 1 but it is the purpose of Yahweh that will stand. 1
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob 2 or number even only one-fourth of Israel? 1 Let me die the death of a righteous person, 2 and let my life's end be like his!”
Deuteronomy 32:29Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, 1 that they would consider their coming fate! 1
Psalms 90:12So teach us to consider our life 1 so that we might live wisely. 1
Proverbs 1:2These proverbs are to teach wisdom and instruction, 1 to teach words of insight, 1
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you receive my words 1 and treasure up my commandments with you, 1
Proverbs 8:34The one who listens to me will be blessed. 1 He will be watching every day at my doors, 1 waiting beside the posts of my doors. 1
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 →