Proverbs 14:7
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
In Context
6A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to go astray from the words of knowledge.
1 Corinthians 5:11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionist; with such an one no not to eat.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:7
6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Note, 1. The reason why some people seek wisdom, and do not find it, is because they do not seek it from a right principle and in a right manner. They are scorners, and it is in scorn that they ask instruction, that they may ridicule what is told them and may cavil at it. Many put questions to Christ, tempting him, and that they might have whereof to accuse him, but they were never the wiser. No marvel if those who… Read the whole commentary →