Proverbs 15:14 - The Scriptures 2009

The heart of the understanding one seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: But the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge and inquires after and craves it, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool feeds on folly. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.

Common English Bible

An understanding heart seeks knowledge; but fools feed on folly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The heart of the wise seeks doctrine. And the mouth of the foolish feeds on ignorance.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

Proverbs 15:14 Cross References

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, For I have observed Your orders.

Psalm 119:97

Mem O how I love Your Torah! It is my study all day long.

Proverbs 1:5

The wise one hears and increases learning, And the understanding one gets wise counsel,

Proverbs 12:23

A clever man is concealing knowledge, But the heart of fools proclaims folly.

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted are evil, But gladness of heart is a continual feast.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the understanding one gets knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise one, and he is wiser still; Teach a righteous one, and he increases in learning.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us what is smooth, prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 44:20

Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his being, nor says, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Hosea 12:1

Ephrayim is feeding on wind, and pursuing an east wind. All the day he increases falsehood and ruin. And they make a covenant with Ashshur, and oil is sent to Mitsrayim.

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these words were so.

2 Peter 3:18

but grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Saviour יהושע Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Amĕn.