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Selected Verse: Proverbs 14:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 14:6 |
Strong Concordance |
A scorner [03887] seeketh [01245] wisdom [02451], and findeth it not: but knowledge [01847] is easy [07043] unto him that understandeth [0995]. |
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King James |
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| An humble, teachable spirit succeeds in seeking (Pro 8:9; Joh 7:17; Jam 1:5-6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Findeth it not - literally, there is none. The successful pursuit of wisdom presupposes at least earnestness and reverence. The scoffer shuts himself out from the capacity of recognizing truth. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
6 In vain the scorner seeketh wisdom;
But to the man of understanding knowledge is easy.
The general sentence is concrete, composed in the common historical form. Regarding ואין, necquidquam, vid., at Pro 13:4. The participle נקל is here neut. for נקלּה, something which makes itself easy or light. The frivolous man, to whom truth is not a matter of conscience, and who recognises no authority, not even the Supreme, never reaches to truth notwithstanding all his searching, it remains veiled to him and far remote; but to the man of understanding, who knows that the fear of God and not estrangement from God leads to truth, knowledge is an easy matter - he enters on the right way to this end, he brings the right receptivity, brings to bear on it the clear eye, and there is fulfilled to him the saying, "To him that hath it is given." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Findeth it not - Because he doth not seek it aright. That understandeth - That is honest and pious. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| A scorner seeketh wisdom - I believe the scorner means, in this book, the man that despises the counsel of God; the infidel. Such may seek wisdom; but he never can find it, because he does not seek it where it is to be found; neither in the teaching of God's Spirit, nor in the revelation of his will. |
5 [1161] If any [1536] of you [5216] lack [3007] wisdom [4678], let him ask [154] of [3844] God [2316], that giveth [1325] to all [3956] men liberally [574], and [2532] upbraideth [3679] not [3361]; and [2532] it shall be given [1325] him [846].
6 But [1161] let him ask [154] in [1722] faith [4102], nothing [3367] wavering [1252]. For [1063] he that wavereth [1252] is like [1503] a wave [2830] of the sea [2281] driven with the wind [416] and [2532] tossed [4494].
17 If [1437] any man [5100] will [2309] do [4160] his [846] will [2307], he shall know [1097] of [4012] the doctrine [1322], whether [4220] it be [2076] of [1537] God [2316], or [2228] whether I [1473] speak [2980] of [575] myself [1683].
9 They are all plain [05228] to him that understandeth [0995], and right [03477] to them that find [04672] knowledge [01847].
4 The soul [05315] of the sluggard [06102] desireth [0183], and hath nothing: but the soul [05315] of the diligent [02742] shall be made fat [01878].