Proverbs 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. ¹ 

biblegateway Pro 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

biblegateway Pro 15:14

The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

biblegateway Pro 15:14

A wise person is hungry for truth, while the fool feeds on trash.

biblegateway Pro 15:14

An intelligent person is always eager to take in more truth; fools feed on fast-food fads and fancies.

SABDAweb Pro 15:14

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

bibleoremus Pro 15:14

The mind of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

biblegateway Pro 15:14

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

biblegateway Pro 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. ¹ 

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.