Proverbs 17:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

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Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

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

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes fromfrom God or from myself.

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.