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14 The teachings of a wise person are a fountain of life
    to turn one away from the grasp of death.
15 Good sense brings favor,
    but the way of treacherous people is always the same.[a]
16 Any sensible person acts with knowledge,
    but a fool displays stupidity.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:15 Masoretic Text; Greek “is their disaster.”

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