Proverbs 14:6
Those who make fun of being wise will never become wise, but those who understand what is right learn things easily.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
In Context
7Stay away from foolish people, because they will not be able to teach you anything useful.
Cross References
Psalms 119:98Because I know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and because I think about them all the time, I have become wiser than my enemies.
Proverbs 8:9My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
Proverbs 17:16It is useless to allow foolish people [RHQ] to try to become wise by paying for it, because they do not have enough good sense to become wise.
Proverbs 18:2Foolish people do not want to understand anything; they only want to ◄express their own opinions/say what they think► [IDM].
Proverbs 26:12God can help/bless foolish people more easily than he can help/bless people who are not wise [RHQ], but think that they are wise.
Jeremiah 8:9Those teachers, who think that [IRO] they are wise, will be ashamed/disgraced and dismayed when they are taken to other countries by their enemies because they sinned by rejecting what I told them. Truly, they were not [RHQ] very wise to do that!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:6
5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. In the administration of justice much depends upon the witnesses, and therefore it is necessary to the common good that witnesses be principled as they ought to be; for, 1. A witness that is conscientious will not dare to give in a testimony that is in the least untrue, nor, for good-will or ill-will, represent a thing otherwise than according to the best of his knowledge, whoever is pleased or displeased, and then judgment runs down like a… Read the whole commentary →