Proverbs 14:6 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ A scoffer seeks Wisdom in vain [for his very attitude blinds and deafens him to it], but knowledge is easy to him who [being teachable] understands.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

Common English Bible

⁶ A mocker searches for wisdom and gets none, but knowledge comes quickly to the intelligent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Proverbs 14:6 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 1:5

By listening, the wise shall become wiser and the intelligent shall possess governments.

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie. But a deceitful witness offers a lie.

Proverbs 14:7

Go against a foolish man, and he does not acknowledge lips of prudence.

Proverbs 15:12

He who corrupts himself does not love the one who afflicts him, nor will he step toward the wise.

Proverbs 17:16

What does it profit the foolish to have riches, when he is not able to buy wisdom? Whoever makes his house high seeks ruin. And whoever shuns learning shall fall into evils.

Proverbs 17:24

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

Proverbs 18:2

The foolish do not accept words of prudence, unless you say what is already turning in his heart.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

Proverbs 26:12

Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.

Proverbs 8:8

All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.

Proverbs 8:9

They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.

Isaiah 8:20

And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men have been confounded; they were terrified and captured. For they cast aside the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

1 Corinthians 8:2

But if anyone considers himself to know anything, he does not yet know in the way that he ought to know.

James 1:5

But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.