Proverbs 19:20
Good News Translation
If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.

New Revised Standard Version
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

Contemporary English Version
Pay attention to advice and accept correction, so you can live sensibly.

New American Bible
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may eventually become wise.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

receive

Proverbs 1:8 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 2:1-9 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

Proverbs 8:34,35 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. . . .

be

Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

Deuteronomy 8:16 And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,

Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

Psalm 37:37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

Psalm 90:12,14 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom. . . .

Luke 16:19-23 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

Context
The Man of Integrity
19He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing. 20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.21There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:3
To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 4:1
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 8:14
By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

Proverbs 8:33
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

Proverbs 19:19
He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing.

Proverbs 19:19
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