Verse 15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:7 : 7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
  • Prov 1:5 : 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
  • Prov 9:9 : 9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  • Prov 26:16 : 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
  • Eccl 4:13 : 13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.
  • Jer 38:15-28 : 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me. 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life. 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house. 18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand. 19 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. 21 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me: 22 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. 23 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire. 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die. 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you: 26 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. 27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. 28 So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
  • Prov 28:11 : 11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.