Proverbs 14:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding. Common English Bible A mocker searches for wisdom and gets none, but knowledge comes quickly to the intelligent. Catholic Public Domain Version A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy. |
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?
Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding: But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.