Proverbs 14:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

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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.

Proverbs 14:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:18

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

Proverbs 1:5

the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding 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 meet words of knowledge.

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?

Proverbs 17:24

A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:2

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

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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 him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

Jeremiah 8:9

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

1 Corinthians 8:2

If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.