Proverbs 14:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for the intelligent.

Cross References

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes to see clearly the wonders of your law.

Proverbs 1:5

The wise by hearing them will advance in learning, the intelligent will gain sound guidance,

Proverbs 14:5

A trustworthy witness does not lie, but one who spouts lies makes a lying witness.

Proverbs 14:7

Go from the face of the fool; you get no knowledge from such lips.

Proverbs 15:12

Scoffers do not love reproof; to the wise they will not go.

Proverbs 17:16

Of what use is money in the hands of fools when they have no heart to acquire wisdom?

Proverbs 17:24

On the countenance of a discerning person is wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:2

Fools take no delight in understanding, but only in displaying what they think.

Proverbs 24:7

Wise words are beyond fools’ reach, in the assembly they do not open their mouth;

Proverbs 26:12

You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are sincere, none of them wily or crooked;

Proverbs 8:9

All of them are straightforward to the intelligent, and right to those who attain knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

for instruction and testimony?” Surely, those who speak like this are the ones for whom there is no dawn.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise are put to shame, terrified, and trapped; Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what sort of wisdom do they have?

1 Corinthians 8:2

If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it.