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

Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

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.

General references

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.