Proverbs 18:2
A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 24:15And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the + 1:7 Or, sum, or, top.beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 12:23An understanding man is a throne of wisdom; but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.
Proverbs 17:16a He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischiefs.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:2
Wisdom and Folly. 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. The original here is difficult, and differently understood. 1. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. When men take a pride in separating themselves from the sentiments and society of others, in contradicting all that has been said before them and advancing new notions of their own, which, though ever so absurd, they are wedded to, it is to gratify a desire or lust of vain-glory, and they… Read the whole commentary →