Proverbs 17:16

Modern English Version

¹⁶Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
seeing he has no heart for it?

Proverbs 17:16

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁶Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
seeing he hath no heart to it?

²⁴Wisdom is before him who has understanding,
but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

²⁴Wisdom is before him that hath understanding;
but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Modern English Version (MEV)

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.