Proverbs 17:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 17

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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

Proverbs 17:16 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Proverbs 17:15 Proverbs 17:17 →

Original word meaning

— of 6

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:25-26
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. …
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 8:4-5
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. …
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

Topics

Blind Blindness Disease Infirmity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16)

Two things are here spoken of with astonishment:—1. God’s great goodness to foolish man, in putting a price into his hand to get wisdom, to get knowledge and grace to fit him for both worlds. We have rational souls, the means of grace, the strivings of the Spirit, access to God by prayer; we have time and opportunity. He that has a good estate (so some understand it) has advantages thereby of gett…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. Though wealth cannot buy wisdom for those who do not love it, yet wisdom procures wealth (Pr 3:16; 14:24).