Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy.
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 lie, but a false witness will speak lies. 6 A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands. 7 Go from before a foolish man when you do not see in him the lips of knowledge.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, so that I may behold wonderful things out of Your Law.
Psalm 119:98-100
Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 8:20
To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise are ashamed, they are terrified, and are captured. Lo, they have turned away from the Word of Jehovah; and what wisdom is in them?
Matthew 6:22-23
The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.
Matthew 13:11-12
He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Romans 1:21-28
Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
2 Peter 3:3-5
First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts