Proverbs 14:7
Go into the presence of a foolish man, and thou shall not perceive the lips of knowledge.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
In Context
6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
8The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:6Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 19:27To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.
1 Corinthians 5:11But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:7
6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Note, 1. The reason why some people seek wisdom, and do not find it, is because they do not seek it from a right principle and in a right manner. They are scorners, and it is in scorn that they ask instruction, that they may ridicule what is told them and may cavil at it. Many put questions to Christ, tempting him, and that they might have whereof to accuse him, but they were never the wiser. No marvel if those who… Read the whole commentary →