Proverbs 17:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?

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  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
  • Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 28:26-27 : 26 saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, as workers together with Him, urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me. 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh, that my people would have listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.
  • Prov 8:4-5 : 4 To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men. 5 O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
  • Prov 18:15 : 15 The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
  • Prov 21:25-26 : 25 The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. 26 He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and does 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 in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 18:2
    79%

    2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may express itself.

  • Prov 14:33
    78%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • Prov 16:22
    77%

    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • Prov 14:6-8
    3 verses
    77%

    6A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

    7Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 14:24
    77%

    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

  • Prov 13:16
    77%

    16Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.

  • Prov 15:14
    76%

    14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

  • Prov 12:15
    76%

    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise.

  • Prov 24:7
    76%

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

  • Prov 15:7
    76%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.

  • Prov 19:3
    76%

    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Eccl 10:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

    3Yes, also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Prov 15:21
    75%

    21Folly is joy to him who is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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

  • Prov 17:21
    75%

    21He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Eccl 6:8
    75%

    8For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

  • Prov 23:9
    75%

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

  • Prov 26:12
    75%

    12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 15:5
    74%

    5A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.

  • Eccl 10:15
    74%

    15The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.

  • Prov 19:1
    74%

    1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • Prov 21:20
    74%

    20There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.

  • Eccl 7:25
    74%

    25I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Prov 10:23
    74%

    23It is as a sport to a fool to do mischief, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

  • Prov 12:23
    74%

    23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

  • Prov 8:5
    74%

    5O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • Ps 92:6
    74%

    6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • Prov 17:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

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

    18A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

  • Prov 26:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

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

    10The great God who formed all things rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.

  • 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 laughter.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • Prov 15:2
    73%

    2The tongue of the wise uses knowledge appropriately, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

  • Prov 14:3
    73%

    3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

  • Job 28:12
    73%

    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Eccl 2:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."

    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

  • Prov 29:20
    73%

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

  • Eccl 7:7
    73%

    7Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a bribe destroys the heart.

  • Ps 94:8
    73%

    8Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Job 28:20
    73%

    20From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Prov 10:14
    72%

    14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

  • 1 Cor 3:19
    72%

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.