Proverbs 17:24
Prudence shines from the face of the wise. The eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
In Context
23The impious receives gifts from the bosom, so that he may pervert the paths of judgment.
25A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:14The heart of the wise seeks doctrine. And the mouth of the foolish feeds on ignorance.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The eyes of a wise man are in his head. A foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I learned that one would pass away like the other.
Ecclesiastes 8:1The wisdom of a man shines in his countenance, and even the expression of a most powerful man will change.
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:24
23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. See here, 1. What an evil thing bribery is: He is a wicked man that will take a gift to engage him to give a false testimony, verdict, or judgment; when he does it he is ashamed of it, for he takes it, with all the secresy imaginable, out of the bosom where he knows it is laid ready for him; it is industriously concealed, and so slyly that, if he could, he would hide it from his own conscience. A gift is taken out of the bosom of a… Read the whole commentary →