Kawikaan 13:15

Filipino Cebuano Bible

15 Ang maayong pagsabut mohatag ug kalooy; Apan ang dalan sa malapason maoy malisud.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Good: Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 14:35, 1 Samuel 18:14-16, Luke 2:52, Acts 7:10

but: Proverbs 4:19, Proverbs 15:10, Psalms 95:9-11, Jeremiah 2:19, Romans 6:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - way Proverbs 14:9 - among Proverbs 16:20 - handleth Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns Isaiah 21:2 - grievous Acts 26:14 - hard

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Good understanding giveth favour,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divine and spiritual things gives a man favour among religious people, makes him taken notice of by them, and acceptable to them: and such an understanding no man has, unless it be given him; and such appear to have one that do the commandments of God, Psalms 111:10. The Israelites, for having and keeping the statutes of the Lord, were accounted by others a wise and an understanding people; and Christ, as man, when he increased in wisdom, grew in favour with God and men. It may be rendered, "good doctrine", as the Vulgate Latin version, or "right doctrine", as the Arabic version, "gives grace" o; is the means of conveying grace into the hearts of men, and of increasing it. What if it should be rendered, "grace gives a good understanding" p? since it is certain, that an understanding to know God and Christ is a gift of grace, 1 John 5:20;

but the way of transgressors [is] hard; ungrateful and unpleasant to themselves and others; it is a rough and rugged way, in which they stumble and fall; and cannot walk with pleasure themselves, when their consciences are awakened, and they are loaded with guilt, and filled with terror; and must be very disagreeable to those who have seen the evil of them.

o חן "gratiam", Pagninus, Montanus. Vatablus. Mercerus. Drusius, Michaelis, Schultens. p "Successum bonum dat gratia", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deuteronomy 21:4; Micah 6:2). This may be applied as here to the hard dry rock, to running streams, or to stagnant pools. In either case, the idea is that of the barren dry soil, or the impassable marsh, in contrast with the fountain of life, carrying joy and refreshment with it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 13:15. The way of transgressors is hard. — Never was a truer saying; most sinners have more pain and difficulty to get their souls damned, than the righteous have, with all their cross-bearings, to get to the kingdom of heaven.