Proverbs 19:20

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Hear counsel and receive instruction, || So that you are wise in your latter end.

YLT

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Heare counsell and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter ende.

JPS

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

LXXE

Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at thy latter end.

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Original-language editions

WLC

שְׁמַ֣ע עֵ֭צָה וְקַבֵּ֣ל מוּסָ֑ר לְ֝מַ֗עַן תֶּחְכַּ֥ם בְּאַחֲרִיתֶֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἄκουε, υἱὲ, παιδείαν πατρός σου, ἵνα σοφὸς γένῃ ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
• Proverbs 8:34–35Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
• Proverbs 2:1–9My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, if…
• Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
• Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
• Numbers 23:10Who 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 16:19–23Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor. And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the…
• Psalms 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
• Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
• Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
• Deuteronomy 8:16He 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 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

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