Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
In Context
19A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty: for if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.
21There are many devices in a man’s heart; but the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Cross References
Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And 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 number our days, that we may get us an heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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 →