Proverbs 15:19

The way of slow men is as an hedge of thorns; the way of just men is without [thing of] hurting. (A lazy person’s way (is) a hedge of thorns; but the way of the righteous (is) without a cause of stumbling.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

In Context

18A wrathful man raiseth chidings; he that is patient, assuageth chidings that were raised.

20A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond man despiseth his mother. (A wise son maketh his father happy; but a fool despiseth his mother.)

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Cross References

Numbers 14:1Therefore all the company cried, and wept in that night,

Psalms 5:8Lord, lead thou forth me in thy rightwiseness for mine enemies; (ad)dress thou my way in thy sight. (Lord, lead thou me forth in thy righteousness, because my enemies be all around me; direct thou my way before thee or direct thou me along thy way.)

Psalms 25:12Who is a man, that dreadeth the Lord? he ordaineth to him a law in the way which he (should) choose. (Who is someone, who feareth the Lord? or who hath reverence for the Lord? the Lord shall ordain to him the way that he should choose.)

Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways think on him, and he shall (ad)dress thy goings. (In all thy ways, or in all thy deeds, think of him, and he shall direct thy steps.)

Proverbs 8:9They be rightful to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing. (They be right to those who understand; and they be obvious to those who find knowledge.)

Proverbs 22:5Armours and swords be in the way of a wayward man; but the keeper of his soul goeth away far from those. (Arms, or weapons, and swords be on the way of the wayward; but he who keepeth his life safe goeth far away from them.)

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:19

18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Here is, 1. Passion the great make-bate. Thence come wars and fightings. Anger strikes the fire which sets cities and churches into a flame: A wrathful man, with his peevish passionate reflections, stirs up strife, and sets people together by the ears; he gives occasion to others to quarrel, and takes the occasion that others give, though ever so trifling. When men carry their resentments too far, one quarrel still produces… Read the whole commentary →

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