THEOSISProverbs 16:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.
מְק֣וֹר חַ֭יִּים שֵׂ֣כֶל בְּעָלָ֑יו וּמוּסַ֖ר אֱוִלִ֣ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Matt 15:14Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.
- John 6:63If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
- Prov 13:14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
- John 5:24Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.
- Prov 10:11The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.
- John 6:68Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?
- Prov 15:2The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.
- Matt 23:16Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor.