THEOSISProverbs 17:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.
לָמָּה־זֶּ֣ה מְחִ֣יר בְּיַד־כְּסִ֑יל לִקְנ֖וֹת חָכְמָ֣ה וְלֶב־אָֽיִן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 23:23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- Prov 21:25Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.
- Prov 21:26He longeth and desireth all the day: but he that is just, will give, and will not cease.
- Prov 18:15A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh instruction.
- Prov 8:4O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
- Prov 8:5O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.
- Acts 28:26Saying: Go to this people and say to them: With the ear you shall hear and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive.
- Acts 28:27For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears have they heard heavily and their eyes they have shut, lest perhaps they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted: and I should heal them.