Proverbs 14:6

NETBible

The scorner 1  seeks wisdom but finds none, 2  but understanding is easy 3  for a discerning person.

NIV ©

The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

NASB ©

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.

NLT ©

A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

MSG ©

Cynics look high and low for wisdom--and never find it; the open-minded find it right on their doorstep!

BBE ©

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

NRSV ©

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.

NKJV ©

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it , But knowledge is easy to him who understands.

KJV
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and [findeth it] not: but knowledge
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unto him that understandeth
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NASB ©
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NET [draft] ITL
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NETBible

The scorner 1  seeks wisdom but finds none, 2  but understanding is easy 3  for a discerning person.

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.”