Proverbs 12:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:7 : 7 Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
  • Prov 1:5 : 5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
  • Prov 9:9 : 9 Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
  • Prov 26:16 : 16 The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
  • Eccl 4:13 : 13 A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
  • Jer 38:15-28 : 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing. 16 So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life. 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death: 18 But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them. 19 And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, for fear that they may give me up to them and they will put me to shame. 20 But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life. 21 But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me: 22 See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you. 23 And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire. 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death. 25 But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death; 26 Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house. 27 Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public. 28 So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.
  • Prov 28:11 : 11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

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  • Prov 19:3
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  • Prov 16:22
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    20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

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