Proverbs 14:9
The foolish will speak mockingly of sin. But grace lingers among the just.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
In Context
10The heart that knows the bitterness of its own soul, in its gladness the outsider shall not meddle.
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
Proverbs 3:4And so shall you discover grace and good discipline, in the sight of God and men.
Proverbs 10:23The foolish work wickedness as if in jest. But wisdom is prudence to a man.
Proverbs 13:15Good doctrine bestows grace. In the way of the contemptuous, there is a chasm.
Proverbs 30:20Such is the way also of an adulterous woman, who eats, and wiping her mouth, says: “I have done no evil.”
Jude 1:18who declared to you that, in the end time, there would arrive mockers, walking according to their own desires, in impieties.
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 →