Proverbs 17:24 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Prudence shines from the face of the wise. The eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ A man of understanding sets skillful and godly Wisdom before his face, but the eyes of a [self-confident] fool are on the ends of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Wisdom is right in front of those with understanding, but the eyes of fools are off to the edges of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁴ The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:24 Tagairtí Cros

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.