Proverbs 14:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ A scoffer seeks Wisdom in vain [for his very attitude blinds and deafens him to it], but knowledge is easy to him who [being teachable] understands.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

Common English Bible

⁶ A mocker searches for wisdom and gets none, but knowledge comes quickly to the intelligent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 14:6 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Proverbs 1:5

let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning and the discerning acquire skill,

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Proverbs 14:7

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not find words of knowledge.

Proverbs 15:12

Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?

Proverbs 17:24

The discerning person looks to wisdom, but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.

Proverbs 8:9

They are all straight to one who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom is in them?

1 Corinthians 8:2

Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge,

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.