Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 19:20 in other translations
| BSB | Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days. |
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| WEB | Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end. |
| ASV | Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. |
| YLT | Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end. |
| DARBY | Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. |
| BBE | Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise. |
| Webster | Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. |
What does Proverbs 19:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 19:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 19:20
- Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- Proverbs 8:34-35
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
- Proverbs 2:1-9
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …
- Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
- Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
- Luke 16:19-23
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; …
- Psalms 90:14
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
- Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
- Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
- Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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Context
- Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
- Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
- Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
Proverbs 19:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Escucha el consejo, y recibe la corrección, para que seas sabio en tu vejez. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Écoute le conseil, et reçois l’instruction, afin que tu sois sage à ta fin. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Höre auf Rat und nimm Unterweisung an, damit du weise seiest in der Zukunft. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Audi consilium, et suscipe disciplinam, ut sis sapiens in novissimis tuis. |