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Selected Verse: Proverbs 12:15 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 12:15 |
Strong Concordance |
The way [01870] of a fool [0191] is right [03477] in his own eyes [05869]: but he that hearkeneth [08085] unto counsel [06098] is wise [02450]. |
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King James |
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The way . . . eyes--The fool is self-conceited (compare Pro 12:1; Pro 1:32; Pro 10:17; Jam 3:17). |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
15 The way of the fool is right in his own eyes,
But the wise listeneth to counsel.
Other proverbs, like Pro 16:2, say that generally the judgment of a man regarding his character does not go beyond a narrow subjectivity; but there are objective criteria according to which a man can prove whether the way in which he walks is right; but the fool knows not other standard than his own opinion, and however clearly and truly one may warn him that the way which he has chosen is the wrong way and leads to a false end, yet he obstinately persists;
(Note: Vid., kindred proverbs by Carl Schulze, Die bibl. Sprichwrter der deutschen Sprache (1860), p. 50, and M. C. Wahl's Das Sprichwort in der heb.-aram. Literatur, u.s.w. (1871), p. 31.)
while a wise man is not so wise in his own eyes (Pro 3:7) as not to be willing to listen to well-meant counsel, because, however careful he may be regarding his conduct, yet he does not regard his own judgment so unerring as not to be inclined ever anew to try it and let it stand the test. Ewald has falsely construed: yet whoever hears counsel is wise. In consequence of the contrast, אויל and חכם are the subject ideas, and with ושׁמע לעצה is brought forward that which is in contrast to the self-complacency of the fool, the conduct of the wise man. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Hearkeneth - That distrusts his own judgments, and seeks counsel from others. |
17 But [1161] the wisdom [4678] that is from above [509] is [2076] first [4412] pure [3303] [53], then [1899] peaceable [1516], gentle [1933], and easy to be intreated [2138], full [3324] of mercy [1656] and [2532] good [18] fruits [2590], without partiality [87], and [2532] without hypocrisy [505].
17 He is in the way [0734] of life [02416] that keepeth [08104] instruction [04148]: but he that refuseth [05800] reproof [08433] erreth [08582].
32 For the turning away [04878] of the simple [06612] shall slay [02026] them, and the prosperity [07962] of fools [03684] shall destroy [06] them.
1 Whoso loveth [0157] instruction [04148] loveth [0157] knowledge [01847]: but he that hateth [08130] reproof [08433] is brutish [01198].
7 Be not wise [02450] in thine own eyes [05869]: fear [03372] the LORD [03068], and depart [05493] from evil [07451].
2 All the ways [01870] of a man [0376] are clean [02134] in his own eyes [05869]; but the LORD [03068] weigheth [08505] the spirits [07307].