20 Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life.
21 You can make many plans, but the Lord 's purpose will prevail.
22 Loyalty makes a person attractive. It is better to be poor than dishonest.
23 Fear of the Lord leads to life, bringing security and protection from harm.
24 Lazy people take food in their hand but don't even lift it to their mouth.
25 If you punish a mocker, the simpleminded will learn a lesson; if you correct the wise, they will be all the wiser.
26 Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
27 If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge.
28 A corrupt witness makes a mockery of justice; the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
29 Punishment is made for mockers, and the backs of fools are made to be beaten.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 19:20-29
Commentary on Proverbs 19:20
(Read Proverbs 19:20)
Those that would be wise in their latter end, must be taught and ruled when young.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:21
(Read Proverbs 19:21)
What should we desire, but that all our purposes may agree with God's holy will?
Commentary on Proverbs 19:22
(Read Proverbs 19:22)
It is far better to have a heart to do good, and want ability for it, than to have ability for it, and want a heart to it.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:23
(Read Proverbs 19:23)
Those that live in the fear of God, shall get safety, satisfaction, and true and complete happiness.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:24
(Read Proverbs 19:24)
Indolence, when indulged, so grows upon people, that they have no heart to do the most needful things for themselves.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:25
(Read Proverbs 19:25)
A gentle rebuke goes farthest with a man of understanding.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:26
(Read Proverbs 19:26)
The young man who wastes his father's substance, or makes his aged mother destitute, is hateful, and will come to disgrace.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:27
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It is the wisdom of young men to dread hearing such talk as puts loose and evil principles into the mind.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:28
(Read Proverbs 19:28)
Those are the worst of sinners, who are glad of an opportunity to sin.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:29
(Read Proverbs 19:29)
The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect. Christ himself, when bearing sins not his own, was not spared. Justice and judgment took hold of our blessed Surety; and will God spare obstinate sinners?