Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.

New American Standard Bible

The crown of the wise is their riches,
But the folly of fools is foolishness.

King James Version

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Holman Bible

The crown of the wise is their wealth,
but the foolishness of fools produces foolishness.

International Standard Version

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the stupidity of fools is just that stupidity!

A Conservative Version

The crown of the wise is their riches. The foolishness of fools is folly.

American Standard Version

The crown of the wise is their riches; But the folly of fools is only folly.

Amplified


The crown of the wise is their wealth [of wisdom],
But the foolishness of [closed-minded] fools is [nothing but] folly.

Bible in Basic English

Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

Darby Translation

The crown of the wise is their riches; the folly of the foolish is folly.

Julia Smith Translation

The crown of the wise is their riches: the folly of the foolish, folly.

King James 2000

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The crown of the wise [is] their wealth; the folly of fools is folly.

Modern King James verseion

The crown of the wise is their riches of wisdom; the foolishness of fools is folly.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Riches are an ornament unto the wise; but the ignorance of fools is very foolishness.

NET Bible

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.

New Heart English Bible

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

The Emphasized Bible

the crown of the wise, is their wealth, but, the folly of dullards, is, folly.

Webster

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

World English Bible

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עטרה 
`atarah 
Usage: 23

of the wise
חכם 
Chakam 
Usage: 137

עשׁר 
`osher 
Usage: 37

but the foolishness
אוּלת 
'ivveleth 
Usage: 25

of fools
כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

23 In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want. 24 The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly. 25 A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

Cross References

Psalm 49:10-13

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

Psalm 112:9

He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

Proverbs 27:22

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

Ecclesiastes 7:11-12

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

Isaiah 33:6

And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it is His treasure.

Luke 12:19-20

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

Luke 16:9

and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

Luke 16:19-25

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

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