Text -- Proverbs 14:6 (NET)

14:6 The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 14:6

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.”