how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
Proverbs 14:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy God’s favor. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Fools make a mock at sin: But among the righteous there is favour. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Fools make a mock of sin and sin mocks the fools [who are its victims; a sin offering made by them only mocks them, bringing them disappointment and disfavor], but among the upright there is the favor of God. [Prov. 10:23.] American Standard Version (1901) A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will. Common English Bible Fools mock a compensation offering, but favor is with those who do right. Catholic Public Domain Version The foolish will speak mockingly of sin. But grace lingers among the just. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide. |
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Doing wrong is like sport to a fool, but wise conduct is pleasure to a person of understanding.
Crooked minds are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those who devise evil he condemns.
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and of people.
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
“But if you cannot afford a sheep, you shall bring to the Lord, as your penalty for the sin that you have committed, two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a purification offering and the other for a burnt offering.
for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”