Proverbs 17:24

Catholic Public Domain Version

Prudence shines from the face of the wise. The eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of the wise seeks doctrine. And the mouth of the foolish feeds on ignorance.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.

Proverbs 23:5

Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The eyes of a wise man are in his head. A foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I learned that one would pass away like the other.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

The wisdom of a man shines in his countenance, and even the expression of a most powerful man will change.

John 7:17

If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.