Proverbs 26:12

NETBible

Do you see 1  a man wise in his own eyes? 2  There is more hope for a fool 3  than for him.

NIV ©

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

NASB ©

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

NLT ©

There is more hope for fools than for people who think they are wise.

MSG ©

See that man who thinks he's so smart? You can expect far more from a fool than from him.

BBE ©

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

NRSV ©

Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

NKJV ©

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

KJV
Seest
<07200> (8804)
thou a man
<0376>
wise
<02450>
in his own conceit
<05869>_?
[there is] more hope
<08615>
of a fool
<03684>
than of him.
NASB ©
Do you see
<7200>
a man
<376>
wise
<2450>
in his own eyes
<5869>
? There is more
<4480>
hope
<8615>
for a fool
<3684>
than
<4480>
for him.
LXXM
(33:12) eidon
<3708> 
V-AAI-1S
andra
<435> 
N-ASM
doxanta
<1380> 
V-AAPAS
par
<3844> 
PREP
eautw
<1438> 
D-DSM
sofon
<4680> 
A-ASM
einai
<1510> 
V-PAN
elpida
<1680> 
N-ASF
mentoi
<3305> 
PRT
escen
<2192> 
V-AAI-3S
mallon
<3123> 
ADV
afrwn
<878> 
A-NSM
autou
<846> 
D-GSM
NET [draft] ITL
Do you see
<07200>
a man
<0376>
wise
<02450>
in his own eyes
<05869>
? There is more hope
<08615>
for a fool
<03684>
than
<04480>
for him.
HEBREW
wnmm
<04480>
lyokl
<03684>
hwqt
<08615>
wynyeb
<05869>
Mkx
<02450>
sya
<0376>
tyar (26:12)
<07200>
NETBible

Do you see 1  a man wise in his own eyes? 2  There is more hope for a fool 3  than for him.

NET Notes

1 tn The verse simply uses a perfect tense. The meaning of the verse would be the same if this were interpreted as an affirmation rather than as an interrogative. The first line calls such a person to one’s attention.

2 tn Heb “in his own eyes” (so NAB, NASB, NIV).

2 sn The subject matter of the verse is the person who is wise in his own opinion. Self-conceit is actually part of the folly that the book of Proverbs criticizes; those who think they are wise even though they are not are impossible to help. For someone to think he is wise when he is not makes him a conceited ignoramus (W. G. Plaut, Proverbs, 268).

3 sn Previous passages in the book of Proverbs all but deny the possibility of hope for the fool. So this proverb is saying there is absolutely no hope for the self-conceited person, and there might be a slight hope for the fool – he may yet figure out that he really is a fool.