Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy.
New American Standard Bible
But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.
King James Version
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Holman Bible
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
International Standard Version
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but learning comes easily to someone who understands.
A Conservative Version
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
American Standard Version
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Amplified
A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none [for his ears are closed to wisdom],
But knowledge is easy for one who understands [because he is willing to learn].
Bible in Basic English
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Darby Translation
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.
Julia Smith Translation
He mocking sought wisdom, and none: and knowledge being easy to him understanding.
King James 2000
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.
Modern King James verseion
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A scornful body seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy to come by, unto him that will understand.
NET Bible
The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.
New Heart English Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Webster
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understandeth.
World English Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Youngs Literal Translation
A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.
Themes
Finding » Who does not find wisdom
Knowledge » God's knowledge of the saints » Intellectual
Knowledge » Knowledge of God is infinite » General references to intellectual
Knowledge » Who knowledge is easy to
The lord seeking that which was lost » Who shall not find wisdom when they seek it
Topics
Interlinear
Baqash
Da`ath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
5 A faithful witness, will not deceive, but a false witness, uttereth deceitful things. 6 A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy. 7 Get thee from the presence of a man that is a dullard, when thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 8:9
All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
Before the face of the discerning, is wisdom, but, the eyes of a dullard, are in the ends of the earth.
Psalm 119:18
Unveil thou mine eyes, that I may discern Wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalm 119:98-100
Beyond mine enemies, will thy commandment make me wise, for, age-abidingly, shall it be mine.
Proverbs 18:2
A dullard, delighteth not, in understanding, in nothing save the exposing of his own heart.
Proverbs 26:12
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, - more hope of a dullard, than of him!
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, It is , because they have no dawning day.
Jeremiah 8:9
Ashamed are the wise, dismayed and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?
Matthew 6:22-23
The lamp of the body, is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body, shall be, lighted up;
Matthew 11:25-27
In that season, answered Jesus, and said - I openly give praise unto thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, - in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes;
Matthew 13:11-12
And, he, answering, said, Because, unto you, hath it been given, to get to know the sacred secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, - whereas, unto them, hath it not been given.
Romans 1:21-28
Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,
Romans 9:31-32
Whereas, Israel, though in pursuit of a law of righteousness, unto a law, have not attained.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one be deceiving himself: - if anyone imagineth himself to be wise among you, in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise;
1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone thinketh that he knoweth anything, not yet knoweth he, as he must needs come to know,
James 1:5
But, if any of you is sinning short of wisdom, let him be asking of God, Who giveth unto all freely and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him;
2 Peter 3:3-5
Of this, first, taking note - that there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on,