Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but in laying open what is in his heart.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
In Context
1He that separateth himself [from God] seeketh his own desires: at every sound wisdom is he enraged.
3When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with dishonorable acts, disgrace.
Cross References
Numbers 24:15And he took up his parable and said, Thus saith Bil'am the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open;
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man concealeth [his] knowledge; but the heart of fools proclaimeth [their] folly.
Proverbs 17:16Wherefore is the purchase-money in the hand of a fool to acquire wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?
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 →