Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright — a pleasing thing.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
In Context
8The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way, And the folly of fools [is] deceit.
10The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
Cross References
Job 34:7Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Proverbs 3:4And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
Proverbs 10:23To execute inventions [is] as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.
Proverbs 13:15Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous [is] hard.
Proverbs 30:20So — the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'
Jude 1:18that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:9
8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. See here, 1. The good conduct of a wise and good man; he manages himself well. It is not the wisdom of the learned, which consists only in speculation, that is here recommended, but the wisdom of the prudent, which is practical, and is of use to direct our counsels and actions. Christian prudence consists in a right understanding of our way; for we are travellers, whose concern it is, not to spy wonders, but to get forward… Read the whole commentary →