Proverbs 17:16

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Why should a fool pay for wisdom when he has no intention of understanding it?

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  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
  • Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of food. 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, 'It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the Gentiles.'
  • Acts 28:26-27 : 26 'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."' 27 For this people's heart has grown calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.'
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 As workers together with Him, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it. 12 But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? 23 If you turn at my correction, behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
  • Prov 8:4-5 : 4 To you, O men, I call out, and my voice is to the people of humankind. 5 Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 "Whoever is simple, let them turn in here! To those who lack understanding, she says: 5 Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding."
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge is easy for a discerning person.
  • Prov 18:15 : 15 The heart of the understanding one gains knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
  • Prov 21:25-26 : 25 The desire of the lazy person kills them, for their hands refuse to work. 26 All day long they crave and crave, but the righteous give and do not hold back.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 17:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    24Wisdom is before the face of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

    25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Prov 18:2
    79%

    2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in revealing his own thoughts.

  • Prov 14:33
    78%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning, but it becomes known even among fools.

  • Prov 16:22
    77%

    22Understanding is a fountain of life to the one who has it, but the discipline of fools is folly.

  • Prov 14:6-8
    3 verses
    77%

    6A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge is easy for a discerning person.

    7Move away from a foolish person, for you will gain no knowledge from their speech.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand their path, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 14:24
    77%

    24The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields only folly.

  • Prov 13:16
    77%

    16Every prudent person acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts their folly.

  • Prov 15:14
    76%

    14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Prov 12:15
    76%

    15The way of a fool seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.

  • Prov 24:7
    76%

    7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

  • Prov 15:7
    76%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the hearts of fools are not upright.

  • Prov 19:3
    76%

    3A man’s foolishness twists his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Eccl 10:2-3
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    76%

    2A wise person's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart inclines him to the left.

    3Even while walking along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how foolish he is.

  • Prov 15:21
    75%

    21Foolishness brings joy to one lacking sense, but a person of understanding walks a straight path.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will become like him yourself.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 17:21
    75%

    21The one who fathers a fool brings grief; the father of a senseless child has no joy.

  • Eccl 6:8
    75%

    8What advantage has the wise person over the fool? What does the poor person gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?

  • Prov 23:9
    75%

    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

  • Prov 26:12
    75%

    12Do you see a person who is wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

  • Prov 15:5
    74%

    5A fool despises his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction is wise.

  • Eccl 10:15
    74%

    15The work of fools wearies them because they do not even know how to go to the city.

  • Prov 19:1
    74%

    1Better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be a fool with twisted lips.

  • Prov 21:20
    74%

    20Valuable treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person swallows them up.

  • Eccl 7:25
    74%

    25I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the meaning of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

  • Prov 10:23
    74%

    23A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.

  • Prov 12:23
    74%

    23A prudent person conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

  • Prov 8:5
    74%

    5Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.

  • Ps 92:6
    74%

    6How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!

  • Prov 17:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

    18A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

  • Prov 26:9-10
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    74%

    9Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

    10A master archer who wounds all and one who hires a fool or passersby are alike.

  • Eccl 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.

  • Prov 15:2
    73%

    2The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of fools gushes folly.

  • Prov 14:3
    73%

    3The mouth of a fool brings a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise protect them.

  • Job 28:12
    73%

    12But where can wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding?

  • Eccl 2:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Then I said in my heart, 'What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise?' And I concluded in my heart, 'This too is meaningless.'

    16For the wise, like the fool, will not be remembered forever; in the days to come, everything will be forgotten. How does the wise person die? Just like the fool!

  • Prov 29:20
    73%

    20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Eccl 7:7
    73%

    7Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

  • Ps 94:8
    73%

    8Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?

  • Job 28:20
    73%

    20But where does wisdom come from, and where is the place of understanding?

  • Prov 10:14
    72%

    14The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings about ruin.

  • 1 Cor 3:19
    72%

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'