Proverbs 17:16 - 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.

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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.

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.

Proverbs 17:16 Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.

Proverbs 18:15

A prudent heart shall possess knowledge. And the ear of the wise seeks doctrine.

Proverbs 23:23

Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

Hosea 4:11

Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, have taken away their heart.

John 3:20

For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas said firmly: "It was necessary to speak the Word of God first to you. But because you reject it, and so judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Who will grant to them to have such a mind, so that they may fear me, and may keep all my commandments at all times, so that it may be well with them and with their sons forever?