Proverbs 12:15

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Summary

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Way

But

Jeremiah 38:15

General references

Proverbs 14:12

Proverbs 26:16

Bible References

Way

Be not wise in thine own conceit, but fear the LORD, and depart from evil:

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but a fool goeth on presumptuously.

A man thinketh all his ways to be clean; but it is the LORD that fashioneth the minds.

If thou seest a man that is wise in his own conceit, there is more hope in a fool than in him.

The rich man thinketh himself to be wise; but the poor that hath understanding, can perceive him well enough.

The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or as this publican.

If any man seem to himself that he is somewhat, when indeed he is nothing, the same deceiveth himself in his imagination.

But

By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:

Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.

O give ear unto good counsel, and be content to be reformed; that thou mayest be wise here after.

A poor child being wise, is better than an old king that doteth, and cannot beware in time to come.

Then Jeremiah answered Zedekiah, "If I be plain unto thee, thou wilt cause me suffer death: If I give thee counsel, thou wilt not follow me."

General references

There is a way which some men think to be right; but the end thereof leadeth unto death.

The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.