Proverbs 17:16
What does it profit the foolish to have riches, when he is not able to buy wisdom? Whoever makes his house high seeks ruin. And whoever shuns learning shall fall into evils.
Catholic Public Domain 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
15Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.
17Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.
Cross References
Proverbs 8:4“O men, to you I call out, and my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.
Proverbs 21:25Desires kill the lazy, for his hands are not willing to work at all.
Isaiah 55:1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.
John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.
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 →