Proverbs 19:20

Modern

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Traditional

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

Literal

Listen to counsel and receive discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter end.

Latin

Audi consilium, et suscipe disciplinam, ut sis sapiens in novissimis tuis.

Hebrew

English

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Theme notes and profiles

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Proverbs 8:34–35
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
Proverbs 2:1–9
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Proverbs 4:1
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Luke 16:19–23
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 37:37
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
Deuteronomy 8:16
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.