Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.
Proverbs 19:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that you may be wise in the time to come. American Standard Version (1901) Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Common English Bible Listen to advice and accept instruction, so you might grow wise in the future. Catholic Public Domain Version Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end. |
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight,
for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;
Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,
By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.
Those who ignore instruction despise themselves, but those who heed admonition gain understanding.
A violent-tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.
Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.
I said, “Surely the city will fear me; it will accept correction; it will not lose sight of all that I have brought upon it.” But they were the more eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the dust cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.