Proverbs 14:24
The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools [is] folly.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
In Context
23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.
25A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
Cross References
Psalms 49:10For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.
Proverbs 27:22If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
Isaiah 33:6And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah — it [is] His treasure.
Luke 16:9and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:24
23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. Note, 1. Working, without talking, will make men rich: In all labour of the head, or of the hand, there is profit; it will turn to some good account or other. Industrious people are generally thriving people, and where there is something done there is something to be had. The stirring hand gets a penny. It is good therefore to keep in business, and to keep in action, and what our hand finds to do to do it with all our might. 2.… Read the whole commentary →