Proverbs 15:14
Context| NETBible | The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. 1 |
| XREF | 1Ki 3:6-12; Ps 119:97,100; Pr 1:5; Pr 9:9; Pr 12:23; Isa 30:10; Isa 44:20; Ho 12:1; Ac 17:11; 2Pe 3:18 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn The idea expressed in the second colon does not make a strong parallelism with the first with its emphasis on seeking knowledge. Its poetic image of feeding (a hypocatastasis) would signify the acquisition of folly – the fool has an appetite for it. D. W. Thomas suggests the change of one letter, ר (resh) to ד (dalet), to obtain a reading יִדְעֶה (yid’eh); this he then connects to an Arabic root da`a with the meaning “sought, demanded” to form what he thinks is a better parallel (“Textual and Philological Notes on Some Passages in the Book of Proverbs,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 285). But even though the parallelism is not as precise as some would prefer, there is insufficient warrant for such a change. |
