Proverbs 17:24

Those who have good sense determine to do what is wise, but foolish people are always thinking about many different things and never decide what they should do.

Translation for Translators

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

23Wicked people/judges accept bribes that are given to them secretly, and as a result they do not decide matters justly/fairly.

25Children who are foolish cause their father to be sad and also cause their mother to be very sorrowful.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:37Do not allow me to look at things that are worthless, and allow me to continue to live, like you promised that you would do.

Proverbs 15:14Those who have good sense want to learn more; foolish people [MTY] are very satisfied with being foolish/ignorant.

Ecclesiastes 2:14because wise people walk in the daylight and [IDM] can see where they are going, but foolish people walk in the darkness and cannot see where they are going.” But I also realized that both wise people and foolish people eventually die.

Ecclesiastes 8:1I will tell you about those who are truly wise [RHQ] with the result that they can explain why everything happens. Being wise enables people to be happy [MTY] and enables them to smile.

1 John 2:16Keep in mind that all the evil human desires in the world are actions/things such as these: People desire to do what their self-directed nature strongly desires. People desire to possess whatever ◄appeals to their senses/they see or hear about►. People boast about the material things that they possess. Such evil ways of living do not originate/come from the Father! Instead they originate/come from the ◄godless people in the world/people in the world who conduct their lives in a manner that displeases God► [MTY]!

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 →

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