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Proverbs 14:9

NETBible	Fools mock¹ at reparation,² but among the upright there is favor.³
NIV © biblegateway Pro 14:9	Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 14:9	Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is good will.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 14:9	Fools make fun of guilt, but the godly acknowledge it and seek reconciliation.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 14:9	The stupid ridicule right and wrong, but a moral life is a favored life.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 14:9	In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 14:9	Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy God’s favor.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 14:9	Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is favor.
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KJV	Fools <0191> make a mock <03887> (8686) at sin <0817>_: but among the righteous <03477> [there is] favour <07522>_.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 14:9	Fools <0191> mock <03917> at sin <0817> , But among <0996> the upright <03477> there is good <07522> will <07522> .
LXXM	oikiai <3614> N-NPF paranomwn {A-GPM} ofeilhsousin <3784> V-FAI-3P kayarismon <2512> N-ASM oikiai <3614> N-NPF de <1161> PRT dikaiwn <1342> A-GPM dektai <1184> A-NPF
NET [draft] ITL	Fools <0191> mock <03887> at reparation <0817> , but among <0996> the upright <03477> there is favor <07522> .
HEBREW	Nwur <07522> Myrsy <03477> Nybw <0996> Msa <0817> Uyly <03887> Mylwa (14:9) <0191>

NETBible

Fools mock¹ at reparation,² but among the upright there is favor.³

NET Notes

¹tn The noun “fools” is plural but the verb “mock” is singular. This has led some to reverse the line to say “guilty/guilt offering mocks fools” (C. H. Toy, Proverbs [ICC], 287); see, e.g., Isa 1:14; Amos 5:22. But lack of agreement between subject and verb is not an insurmountable difficulty.

²tc The LXX reads “houses of transgressors will owe purification.” Tg. Prov 14:9 has “guilt has its home among fools” (apparently reading לִין לוּן, lin lun).

²tn Heb “guilt.” The word אָשָׁם (’asham) has a broad range of meanings: “guilt; reparation.” According to Leviticus, when someone realized he was guilty he would bring a “reparation offering,” a sin offering with an additional tribute for restitution (Lev 5:1-6). It would be left up to the guilty to come forward; it was for the kind of thing that only he would know, for which his conscience would bother him. Fools mock any need or attempt to make things right, to make restitution (cf. NIV, NRSV, NCV, TEV).

³tn The word רָצוֹן (ratson) means “favor; acceptance; pleasing.” It usually means what is pleasing or acceptable to God. In this passage it either means that the upright try to make amends, or that the upright find favor for doing so.