Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: For the latter end of that man is peace.
Proverbs 19:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. 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 perfect man, and behold the upright: For the latter end of that man is peace.
O satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy; That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and judgement and equity;
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes: But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul: But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty: For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.
Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction; so her dwelling should not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end: