Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 dissemble; but a false record will make a lie. 6 A scornful body seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy to come by, unto him that will understand. 7 See that thou meddle not with a fool; and do as though thou hadst no knowledge.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to such as will understand, and right to them that find knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom shineth in the face of him that hath understanding; but the eyes of fools wander throughout all lands.
Psalm 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may see the wondrous things of thy law.
Psalm 119:98-100
Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only in those things wherein his heart rejoiceth.
Proverbs 26:12
If thou seest a man that is wise in his own conceit, there is more hope in a fool than in him.
Isaiah 8:20
If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.
Jeremiah 8:9
therefore shall the wise be confounded. They shall be afraid and taken, for lo, they have cast out the word of the LORD: what wisdom can then be among them?
Matthew 6:22-23
The light of the body is thine eye: wherefore if thine eye be single, all thy body shall be full of light.
Matthew 11:25-27
At that time, Jesus answered and said, "I praise thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast opened them unto babes,
Matthew 13:11-12
He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Romans 1:21-28
inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, which followed the law of righteousness, could not attain unto the law of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.
2 Peter 3:3-5
This first understand: that there shall come in the last days mockers, which will walk after their own lusts