Proverbs 14:6
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14:6The scorner14 seeks wisdom but finds none,15
but understanding is easy16 for a discerning person.
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- 14 The “scorner” (לֵץ, lets) is intellectually arrogant; he lacks any serious interest in knowledge or religion. He pursues wisdom in a superficial way so that he can appear wise. The acquisition of wisdom is conditioned by one’s attitude toward it (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 149).
- 15 Heb “and there is not.”
- 16 The Niphal of קָלַל (qalal) means “to appear light; to appear trifling; to appear easy.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,
but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
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NLTNew Living Translation
A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it,
but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none,
but knowledge comes easily to him who understands.
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KJV 1900King James Version
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not:
But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
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