Proverbs 17:24
Chochmah is before the meiven (discerning one); 1 but the eynayim of a kesil are on the ends of ha'aretz. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
25A ben kesil is a ka'as (grief) to aviv (his father), 1 and bitterness to her that bore him. 1
Cross References
Psalms 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding shav (vanity); 1 and revive Thou me in Thy derech. 1
Proverbs 15:14The lev of him that hath understanding seeketh da'as, 1 but the peh (mouth) of kesilim feedeth on folly. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:14The chacham (wise man) hath eyes in his rosh; but the kesil (fool) walketh in choshech; but I myself perceived also that the same mikreh (fortune) happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 8:1Who is the chacham? 1 And who knoweth the pesher (interpretation, explanation) of a thing? 1 A manʼs chochmah maketh his face bright, 1 and the rudeness of his face is changed.
1 John 2:16For all that is in the Olam Hazeh, the ta'avah (lust) of the basar and the ta'avah of the eyes and the gaa'vah (pride) in the chashuve (prominence) of what one has in this life, oneʼs vital possessions, all this is not of HaAv but is of the Olam Hazeh. + 2:16 Gn 3:6; Prov 27:20
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 →