Proverbs 14:15
The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
14From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man — from his fruits.
16The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And David saith unto the youth who is declaring [it] to him, 'How hast thou known that Saul and Jonathan his son [are] dead?'
Nehemiah 6:4and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way, And the folly of fools [is] deceit.
Proverbs 27:12The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.
Acts 13:7who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,
Ephesians 4:14that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
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 →