Proverbs 17:16
Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
In Context
17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Cross References
Psalms 81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
Proverbs 8:4To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
Proverbs 21:25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Isaiah 55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
John 3:20For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:16
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord . This shows what an offence it is to God, 1. When those that are entrusted with the administration of public justice, judges, juries, witnesses, prosecutors, counsel, do either acquit the guilty or condemn those that are not guilty, or in the least contribute to either; this defeats the end of government, which is to protect the good and punish the bad, Rom. xiii. 3, 4 . It is equally provoking to God to… Read the whole commentary →