Proverbs 18:1
For [an object of] desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
In Context
2A fool delighteth not in understanding, But — in uncovering his heart.
Cross References
Exodus 33:16and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes — I and Thy people — is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished — I and Thy people — from all the people who [are] on the face of the ground.'
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
Proverbs 17:14The beginning of contention [is] a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
Proverbs 20:19A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver [with] his lips make not thyself surety.
Proverbs 26:17Laying hold on the ears of a dog, [Is] a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
Jeremiah 15:17I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, — Alone I have sat, For [with] indignation Thou hast filled me.