Proverbs 14:6
ContextNETBible | The scorner 1 seeks wisdom but finds none, 2 but understanding is easy 3 for a discerning person. |
XREF | Ps 119:18,98-100; Pr 8:9; Pr 17:24; Pr 18:2; Pr 26:12; Isa 8:20; Jer 8:9; Mt 6:22,23; Mt 11:25-27; Mt 13:11,12; Ro 1:21-28; Ro 9:31,32; 1Co 3:18,19; 1Co 8:2; Jas 1:5; 2Pe 3:3-5 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn 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). 2 tn Heb “and there is not.” 3 sn The Niphal of קָלַל (qalal) means “to appear light; to appear trifling; to appear easy.” |