Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 20 Holy Bible
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
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Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
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Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - (Comp. Proverbs 8:10; Proverbs 12:15.) The Septuagint directs the maxim to children, "Hear, O son, the instruction of thy father." That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Wisdom gathered and digested in youth is seen in the prudence and intelligence of manhood and old age. Job 8:7, "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." Ecclesiastes 25:6, "O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour! Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory." "Wer nicht horen will," say the Germans, "muss fuhlen," "He that will not hear must feel." Among Pythagoras's golden words we read - Βουλεύου δὲ πρὸ ἔργου ὅπως μὴ μῶρα τέληται. "Before thou doest aught, deliberate,Lest folly thee befall."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) 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)