Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.
25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:14The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
Ecclesiastes 8:1The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of 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 →