Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
New American Standard Bible
But the sensible are crowned with knowledge.
King James Version
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Holman Bible
but the sensible are crowned with knowledge.
International Standard Version
The naive inherit folly, but the careful are crowned with knowledge.
A Conservative Version
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
American Standard Version
The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Amplified
The naive [are unsophisticated and easy to exploit and] inherit foolishness,
But the sensible [are thoughtful and far-sighted and] are crowned with knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.
Darby Translation
The simple inherit folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Julia Smith Translation
The simple inherit folly: and the prudent shall be surrounded with knowledge.
King James 2000
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The simple are adorned [with] folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge.
Modern King James verseion
The simple inherit folly, but the wise are crowned with knowledge.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ignorant have foolishness in possession; but the wise are crowned with knowledge.
NET Bible
The naive inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.
New Heart English Bible
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
The Emphasized Bible
The simple inherit folly, but, the shrewd, crowneth himself with knowledge.
Webster
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
World English Bible
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Interlinear
Nachal
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
17 Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated. 18 The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19 The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:35
Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!
Proverbs 4:7-9
The first thing is wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 11:29-30
Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant is the fool to the wise of heart.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.
Jeremiah 44:17
for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and -- we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.
Daniel 12:3
And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
Matthew 23:29-32
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,
2 Timothy 4:8
henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.
1 Peter 1:18
having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
1 Peter 5:4
and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.