15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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…
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