Proverbs 19:20
New International Version
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

New Living Translation
Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life.

English Standard Version
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

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

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

New King James Version
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter days.

New American Standard Bible
Listen to advice and accept discipline, So that you may be wise the rest of your days.

NASB 1995
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days.

NASB 1977
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days.

Legacy Standard Bible
Listen to counsel and receive discipline, That you may be wise in the end of your days.

Amplified Bible
Listen to counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, That you may be wise in the time to come.

Christian Standard Bible
Listen to counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise later in life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen to counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise later in life.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise in your ways.

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

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to advice and accept discipline so that you may be wise the rest of your life.

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

International Standard Version
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and you'll be wise for the rest of your life.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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

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

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

NET Bible
Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

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Context
The Man of Integrity
19A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again. 20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days. 21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.…

Cross References
Proverbs 1:3
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

Proverbs 4:1
Listen, my sons, to a father's instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Proverbs 8:14
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.

Proverbs 8:33
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.

Proverbs 19:19
A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.


Treasury of Scripture

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

receive

Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 2:1-9
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …

Proverbs 8:34,35
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors…

be

Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Deuteronomy 8:16
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;

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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(20) That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.--That "though thy beginning might be small, yet that thy latter end should greatly increase" (Job 8:7)

Verse 20. - (Comp. Proverbs 8:10; Proverbs 12:15.) The Septuagint directs the maxim to children, "Hear, O son, the instruction of thy father." That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. Wisdom gathered and digested in youth is seen in the prudence and intelligence of manhood and old age. Job 8:7, "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." Ecclesiastes 25:6, "O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour! Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory." "Wer nicht horen will," say the Germans, "muss fuhlen," "He that will not hear must feel." Among Pythagoras's golden words we read -

Βουλεύου δὲ πρὸ ἔργου ὅπως μὴ μῶρα τέληται.

"Before thou doest aught, deliberate,
Lest folly thee befall."


Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
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שְׁמַ֣ע (šə·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

to counsel
עֵ֭צָה (‘ê·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6098: Advice, plan, prudence

and accept
וְקַבֵּ֣ל (wə·qab·bêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6901: To receive, take

discipline,
מוּסָ֑ר (mū·sār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint

that
לְ֝מַ֗עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

you may be wise
תֶּחְכַּ֥ם (teḥ·kam)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2449: To be wise

the rest of your days.
בְּאַחֲרִיתֶֽךָ׃ (bə·’a·ḥă·rî·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 319: The last, end, the future, posterity


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