Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
21There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
Deuteronomy 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Psalms 90:12So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
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 →