Parallel Verses
King James Version
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
New American Standard Bible
But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.
Holman Bible
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
International Standard Version
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but learning comes easily to someone who understands.
A Conservative Version
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
American Standard Version
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Amplified
A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none [for his ears are closed to wisdom],
But knowledge is easy for one who understands [because he is willing to learn].
Bible in Basic English
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Darby Translation
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.
Julia Smith Translation
He mocking sought wisdom, and none: and knowledge being easy to him understanding.
King James 2000
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.
Modern King James verseion
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A scornful body seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy to come by, unto him that will understand.
NET Bible
The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.
New Heart English Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
The Emphasized Bible
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy.
Webster
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understandeth.
World English Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Youngs Literal Translation
A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.
Themes
Finding » Who does not find wisdom
Knowledge » God's knowledge of the saints » Intellectual
Knowledge » Knowledge of God is infinite » General references to intellectual
Knowledge » Who knowledge is easy to
The lord seeking that which was lost » Who shall not find wisdom when they seek it
Topics
Interlinear
Baqash
Da`ath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. 7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Psalm 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalm 119:98-100
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Matthew 6:22-23
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Matthew 13:11-12
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Romans 1:21-28
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
2 Peter 3:3-5
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,