Proverbs 17:16
Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
In Context
15He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.
Cross References
Proverbs 8:4You, O men, I exhort; and utter my voice to the sons of men.
Proverbs 14:6You shall seek wisdom with bad men, and shall not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent.
Proverbs 21:25Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.
Isaiah 55:1You⌃ that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:16
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord . This shows what an offence it is to God, 1. When those that are entrusted with the administration of public justice, judges, juries, witnesses, prosecutors, counsel, do either acquit the guilty or condemn those that are not guilty, or in the least contribute to either; this defeats the end of government, which is to protect the good and punish the bad, Rom. xiii. 3, 4 . It is equally provoking to God to… Read the whole commentary →