Proverbs 14:9
In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
In Context
10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Proverbs 3:4So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.
Proverbs 10:23It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
Proverbs 13:15Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.
Proverbs 30:20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
Jude 1:18How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:9
8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. See here, 1. The good conduct of a wise and good man; he manages himself well. It is not the wisdom of the learned, which consists only in speculation, that is here recommended, but the wisdom of the prudent, which is practical, and is of use to direct our counsels and actions. Christian prudence consists in a right understanding of our way; for we are travellers, whose concern it is, not to spy wonders, but to get forward… Read the whole commentary →