Proverbs 14:15
The foolish will beleeue euery thing: but the prudent will consider his steppes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
16A wise man feareth, and departeth from euill: but a foole rageth, and is carelesse.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And Dauid saide vnto the yong man that tolde it him, Howe knowest thou that Saul and Ionathan his sonne be dead?
Nehemiah 6:4Yet they sent vnto me foure times after this sort. And I answered them after the same maner.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdome of ye prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the foolishnes of the fooles is deceite.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
Acts 13:7Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.
Ephesians 4:14That we henceforth be no more children, wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the deceit of men, and with craftines, whereby they lay in wait to deceiue.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:15
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them. They would not leave their brutish lusts and passions, and therefore they shall stick by them, to their… Read the whole commentary →