Proverbs 17:24
Sensible people focus on wisdom, but the eyes of stupid people are always wandering.
Free Bible 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 wicked take hidden bribes to pervert the course of justice.
25A stupid son brings grief to his father and sadness to his mother who gave birth to him.
Cross References
Psalms 119:37Don't let me focus on things that are worthless. Help me live in your ways.
Proverbs 15:14An insightful mind looks for knowledge, but stupid people feed on foolishness.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise see where they're going, but fools walk in darkness. But I also realized that they all come to the same end.
Ecclesiastes 8:1Who can compare to the truly wise? Who knows how to interpret things? If you have wisdom your face lights up, and your stern look is softened.
1 John 2:16For all the things of this world—our sinful desires, wanting everything we see, boasting about what we've accomplished in life— these things don't come from the Father but from 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 →