Proverbs 13:15 (BSB)

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:15: If we compare not only the end, but the way, we shall find that religion has the advantage; for, 1. The way of saints is pleasant and agreeable: Good understanding gains favour with God and man; our Saviour grew in that favour when he increased in wisdom.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:15: Good understanding giveth favour,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divine and spiritual things gives a man favour among religious people, makes him taken notice of by them, and acceptable to them: and such an understanding no man has, unless it be given him; and such appear to have one that do the commandments of God, Psa 111:10.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:15: Right perception and action secure good will, while evil ways are difficult as a stony road. The wicked left of God find punishment of sin in sinning. hard--or, "harsh" (compare Hebrew: Deu 21:4; Jer 5:15).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 13:15: Pro 13:15 Four proverbs follow, whose connection appears to have been occasioned by the sound of their words (שׂכל ... כל, בדעת ... ברע, רשׁע ... רישׁ). 15 Fine prudence produceth favour; But the way of the malicious is uncultivated. Regarding שׂכל טוב (thus to be punctuated, without Makkeph with Munach, after Codd. and old editions), vid., p.