Proverbs 12:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 12:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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Advice Ambition Arrogance Conceit Confidence Counsel Egotism Fasting

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15)

See here, 1. What it is that keeps a fool from being wise: His way is right in his own eyes; he thinks he is in the right in every thing he does, and therefore asks no advice, because he does not apprehend he needs it; he is confident he knows the way, and cannot miss it, and therefore never enquires the way. The rule he goes by is to do that which is right in his own eyes, to walk in the way of h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. The way ... eyes--The fool is self-conceited (compare Pr 12:1; 1:32; 10:17; Jas 3:17).