Proverbs 18:2
A fool does not delight in understanding, || But in uncovering his heart.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
In Context
1He who is separated seeks [his own] desire, || He interferes with all wisdom.
3Contempt has also come with the coming of the wicked, || And with shame—reproach.
Cross References
Numbers 24:15And he takes up his allegory and says: “An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor, || And an affirmation of the man whose eyes [are] shut;
Proverbs 1:7Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man is concealing knowledge, || And the heart of fools proclaims folly.
Proverbs 17:16Why [is] this—a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, || And a heart—there is none?
Matthew 8:34And behold, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen Him, they called on [Him] that He might depart from their borders.
1 Corinthians 14:12so you also, since you are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, seek for the building up of the Assembly that you may abound;
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 →