A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

亵慢人寻智慧，却寻不着；聪明人易得知识。

傲慢人枉寻智慧；聪明人易得知识。

傲慢人枉寻智慧；聪明人易得知识。

嘲讽者徒然寻智慧，明哲人轻易得知识。

好讥笑人的寻找智慧，却寻不着；聪明人寻找知识，却轻易得着。

讥讽者寻求智慧却得不到；有悟性的人轻易得知识。

褻慢人尋智慧，卻尋不着；聰明人易得知識。

傲慢人枉尋智慧；聰明人易得知識。

傲慢人枉尋智慧；聰明人易得知識。

嘲諷者徒然尋智慧，明哲人輕易得知識。

好譏笑人的尋找智慧，卻尋不著；聰明人尋找知識，卻輕易得著。

褻慢人尋智慧，卻尋不着；明達人得知識很輕易。

譏諷者尋求智慧卻得不到；有悟性的人輕易得知識。

侮慢者求智弗獲、明哲者知識易得、

侮慢者、求智而不能、明哲者、學道而易得。

侮慢者求智不得、明哲者易得知識、

The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Those who make fun of others look for wisdom and don’t find it. But knowledge comes easily to those who understand what is right.

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

A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, But knowledge is easy for one who has understanding.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who understands.

A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and[ findeth it] not: but knowledge[ is] easy unto him that understandeth.

The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

He answered them,“ Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.

At that time Jesus said,“ I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.

All of them are clear to the perceptive, and right to those who discover knowledge.

First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,saying,“ Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and snared. They have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?

Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wonderful things from Your instruction.

A fool does not delight in understanding, but only wants to show off his opinions.

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.I have more insight than all my teachers because Your decrees are my meditation.I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts.

“ The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness— how deep is that darkness!

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.Claiming to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.