(A)A scoffer seeks wisdom (B)in vain,
    but (C)knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

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A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none,
    but knowledge comes easily to him who understands.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:6 Literally “to one who understands it comes easy”

10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
    than a hundred blows into a fool.

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10 A rebuke strikes him who understands
    deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

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24 (A)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

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24 He who understands sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:24 Or “land”