A scoffer seeks wisdom yet finds none, but knowledge is easy to the discerning.
Proverbs 8:9 - Tree of Life Version All of them are straightforward to the discerning, and right to those who find knowledge. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are all plain to him who understands [and opens his heart], and right to those who find knowledge [and live by it]. American Standard Version (1901) They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge. Common English Bible All of them are straightforward to those who understand, and upright for the knowledgeable. Catholic Public Domain Version They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. |
A scoffer seeks wisdom yet finds none, but knowledge is easy to the discerning.
A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to Sheol.
Wisdom is before the person of understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
A discerning heart gains knowledge, the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.
A highway will be there—a roadway. It will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it. It is for the one who walks the way. Fools will not go astray.
Is it said, “O house of Jacob, is the Ruach Adonai short of patience? Are these His deeds?” “Do not My words deal well with one who walks uprightly?”
It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened and learned from the Father comes to Me.
If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.