Text -- Proverbs 19:20 (NET)

19:20 Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 19:20

¹ sn The advice refers in all probability to the teachings of the sages that will make one wise.

² tn The proverb is one continuous thought, but the second half of the verse provides the purpose for the imperatives of the first half.

³ tn The imperfect tense has the nuance of a final imperfect in a purpose clause, and so is translated “that you may become wise” (cf. NAB, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “become wise in your latter end” (cf. KJV, ASV) which could obviously be misunderstood.