Proverbs 13:19
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
In Context
20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Cross References
Job 28:28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Proverbs 3:7Be not wise in thy own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Proverbs 29:10The blood-thirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Song of Solomon 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:19
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. Note, 1. He that is so proud that he scorns to be taught will certainly be abased. He that refuses the good instruction offered him, as if it were a reflection upon his honour and an abridgment of his liberty, poverty and shame shall be to him: he will become a beggar and live and die in disgrace; every one will despise him as foolish, and stubborn, and ungovernable. 2. He that is so humble that he… Read the whole commentary →