Proverbs 18:2

Foolish people do not want to understand anything; they only want to ◄express their own opinions/say what they think► [IDM].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

In Context

1Those who separate themselves from other people think only about those things that they are interested in; if they would continually associate with those who have good judgment/sense, they would constantly disagree/quarrel with them.

3Whenever people do wicked things, others will despise them; when people do things that cause themselves to no longer be honored, they will be disgraced also.

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Cross References

Numbers 24:15So Balaam said this to Balak: “I, Balaam, son of Beor, am again giving a prophecy, speaking as a man who sees what will happen in the future clearly speaks.

Proverbs 1:7If you want to be wise, you must begin by revering Yahweh. Only foolish people despise wisdom and good advice/discipline.

Proverbs 12:23Those with good sense do not reveal all that they know; foolish people show clearly by what they say that they ◄are ignorant/have not learned much►.

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.

Matthew 8:34Then it seemed as if all the people [HYP] who lived in that town [MTY] went to meet Jesus. When they saw him and the two men who had been controlled by the demons, they begged Jesus to leave their region because they thought that he would destroy more things than just the pigs (OR, because they realized he must be very powerful).

1 Corinthians 14:12So I say this to you: Because you are eager to have the abilities that God’s Spirit gives, earnestly desire those abilities that will do the most to help all the believers in the congregation.

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 →

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