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