Proverbs 17:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he has no understanding?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, Seeing he hath no heart to it?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Of what use is money in the hand of a [self-confident] fool to buy skillful and godly Wisdom–when he has no understanding or heart for it?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Why should a fool have money to pay for wisdom? He has no mind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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 17:16 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

Hosea 4:11

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

John 3:20

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Acts 13:46

Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba spoke out boldly, and said, *It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!