Proverbs 14:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Cross References

Psalm 119:18

Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

Proverbs 1:5

The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:

Proverbs 14:5

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

Proverbs 14:7

Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

Proverbs 15:12

The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 17:16

How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:2

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Proverbs 26:12

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

Proverbs 8:8

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

Proverbs 8:9

They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .If they do not say such things (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .For him there is no dawn (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

1 Corinthians 8:2

If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

James 1:5

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.