Proverbs 13:15

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deuteronomy 21:4 ; Micah 6:2 ). This may be applied as here to the hard...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 13. This chapter has little that is fresh and no new groups of proverbs. We have a well-known reference to the weariness of waiting for a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

giveth favour. Illustrations: Abraham ( Genesis 23:10 ; Genesis 23:11 ); Joseph ( Genesis 39:2 ); Joshua ( Joshua 6:27 ); David ( 1 Samuel 18:14 )...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 781 THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS HARD Proverbs 13:15 . The way of transgressors is hard . THE Scriptures abound with weighty aphorisms,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Good understanding giveth favour, &c.— A good understanding granteth favour, but the demeanor of the insolent is pertinacious. Schultens. The...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. Good understanding giveth favour - both with God and man. But the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2. Read, 'the desire of the treacherous is for violence' (RM).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Read, 'A man of tact obtaineth favour, but the way of the treacherous is their destruction.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Good understanding giveth favour. — Comp. the union of “wisdom” and “favour with God and man” ( Luke 2:52 ). The way of transgressors is hard. —...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 13:2 . Compare this with Proverbs 12:14 . As the words of a good man benefit himself as well as others, so the evil deeds of transgr...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to dep...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Good understanding giveth favour ,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divin...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors [is] hard. Ver. 15. Good understanding giveth favour. ] See this exemplified in Jos...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Good understanding Discovering itself by a man's holy and righteous practices; giveth favour Maketh a man acceptable both to God and men; but th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. If we compare not only the end, but the way, we shall f...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Good understanding; discovering itself by a man's holy and righteous practices and ways, as appears from the opposition of the way of transgressor...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Those Who Want Their Hopes And Desires Fulfilled Must Respond God's Wisdom And Understanding, Heeding Those Who Teach Them, And It Will Be To Them A...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 13:15 . Good understanding , rather “discretion.” Hard , “stony,” “uncultivated.” This is the generally received render...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 13:1 . A wise son heareth his father's instruction. This maxim is in substance often repeated, it being of the last importance to hear th...
The Biblical Illustrator

Good understanding giveth favour. A sound intellect I. The nature of a sound intellect. A good understanding must include four things. 1. En...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 13:1-15:19 Second section in this collection. Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction. The Author...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 15. Good understanding giveth favor, that is, proper prudence, true culture, causes men to have a high and kindly regard for those who possess i...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 18:14-16 ; Acts 7:10 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Luke 2:52 ; Proverbs 14:35 ; Proverbs 15:10 ; Proverbs 3:4 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 95:9-11...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Giveth — Makes a man acceptable to God. Rough — Offensive and hateful to God and men, as rough ways are to a traveller.

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 13:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 13:15