Proverbs 14:15
The simple, believeth every word, but, the prudent, looketh well to his going.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 avoideth evil, but, a dullard, is haughty and confident.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5Then said David unto the young man who was telling him,—How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
Nehemiah 6:4Yet they sent unto me, according to this message, four times,—and I replied to them according to this answer.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent, is to understand his way, but, the folly of dullards, is a fraud.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent man, seeth calamity—he hideth himself, the simple, pass on—they suffer.
Acts 13:7Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The same, calling for Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God.
Ephesians 4:14That we may, no longer, be infants—billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching,—in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;
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 →