Proverbs 17:16 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, Seeing he hath no heart to it?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Of what use is money in the hand of a [self-confident] fool to buy skillful and godly Wisdom–when he has no understanding or heart for it?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Why should a fool have money to pay for wisdom? He has no mind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ What does it profit the foolish to have riches, when he is not able to buy wisdom? Whoever makes his house high seeks ruin. And whoever shuns learning shall fall into evils.

Proverbs 17:16 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 18:15

A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh instruction.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

John 3:20

For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Hosea 4:11

Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the understanding.

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.