Proverbs 14:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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 Cross References

Psalm 119:18

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

Proverbs 14:7

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Proverbs 15:12

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 26:12

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

Proverbs 8:9

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

1 Corinthians 8:2

And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

James 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.