Proverbs 17:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Proverbs 17:16 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 14:6

The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and do not sell it – wisdom, instruction and insight as well.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.

Hosea 4:11

to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.

John 3:20

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: ‘We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children for ever!