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

Other Translations of Proverbs 13:15

New International Version

15 Good judgment wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

English Standard Version

15 Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); Hebrew is rugged, or is an enduring rut

The Message

15 Sound thinking makes for gracious living, but liars walk a rough road.

New King James Version

15 Good understanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful is hard.

New Living Translation

15 A person with good sense is respected; a treacherous person is headed for destruction.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 13:15

Commentary on Proverbs 13:15

(Read Proverbs 13:15)

The way of sinners is hard upon others, and hard to the sinner himself. The service of sin is slavery; the road to hell is strewed with the thorns and thistles that followed the curse.