Proverbs 19:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. ”

• Proverbs 19:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. Proverbs 1...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  instruction . correction, or discipline.

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Hear counsel, and receive (with due attention) instruction - Hebrew, musar, 'discipline.' That thou mayes...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. — That “though thy beginning might be small, yet that thy latter end should greatly increase” ( Job 8:7 )

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 19:7 . This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been l...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction ,.... Of parents, masters, and ministers; especially the counsel and instruction of Wisdom, of Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God, the wonderful Counsellor; and of...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Ver. 20. Hear counsel, and receive instruction. ] Or, Correction. Here he directs his speech to the younger sort,...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hear counsel , &c. Be willing to be taught and ruled; to be advised and reproved, when thou art young; that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end Before thy death come. Which he adds, not excl...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.       Note, 1. It is well with those that are wise in their latter end, wise for their latter end, f...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Before thy death come; which he adds not exclusively, as if he ought not to be wish before, but emphatically, to show that how foolishly soever he had spent his former and younger years, it highly co...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 19:18 . Let not thy soul spare for his crying . The translations of most expositors here differ widely from the authorised version. Grotius, Maurer, Delitzsch, Zöckler, e...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 19:1 . Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hear counsel and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Instruction and counsel placed before the young I. The advice given. These two things in the text will be found...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walkth in his integrity. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7 , Proverbs 19:22 , rash, which signifies "poor" in oppositi...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 20. Hear counsel and receive instruction, in effecting the moral training which every person needs for true wisdom, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end, in the future; for the conduct o...

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• Proverbs 19:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Deuteronomy 8:16 ; Luke 16:19-23 ; Numbers 23:10 ; Proverbs 1:8 ; Proverbs 2:1-9 ; Proverbs 8:34 ; Proverbs 8:35 ; Psalms 37:37 ; Psalms 90:12 ; Psalms 90:14

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