잠언 14:19의 유대 사상

(2) When meeting those who are wise in knowledge of G-d and of His torah, or pious men who are near to G-d, as written: "Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me" (Tehilim 141:5), and "The evil bow before the good" (Mishlei 14:19).

From this analogy, there is to stir a person to wage war against the taavot (base desires), and to stand up to the yetzer with diligent exertion. Because we have seen that the yetzer is too weak to stand up against the Understanding, and how quickly he falls before it, as written "the evil ones bow before the good" (Mishlei 14:19).