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Proverbs 14

Prov. 14:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fools
'eviyl (Hebrew #191)
(figuratively) silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish) (man).
Pronounce: ev-eel'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse)
f make a mock
luwts (Hebrew #3887)
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Pronounce: loots
Origin: a primitive root
at sin
'asham (Hebrew #817)
guilt; by implication, a fault; also a sin-offering
KJV usage: guiltiness, (offering for) sin, trespass (offering).
Pronounce: aw-shawm'
Origin: from 816
: but among the righteous
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
there is favor
ratsown (Hebrew #7522)
from 7521; delight (especially as shown)
KJV usage: (be) acceptable(-ance, -ed), delight, desire, favour, (good) pleasure, (own, self, voluntary) will, as...(what) would.
Pronounce: raw-tsone'
Origin: or ratson {raw-tsone'}
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Prov. 10:23• 23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. (Prov. 10:23)

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Righteousness,
Sin

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Fools.
Prov. 1:22• 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (Prov. 1:22)
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Prov. 10:23• 23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. (Prov. 10:23)
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Prov. 26:18‑19• 18As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
 19So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport? (Prov. 26:18‑19)
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Prov. 30:20• 20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. (Prov. 30:20)
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Job 15:16• 16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job 15:16)
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Job 34:7‑9• 7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
 8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
 9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. (Job 34:7‑9)
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Jude 18• 18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (Jude 18)
among.
Prov. 3:4• 4So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. (Prov. 3:4)
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Prov. 8:35• 35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. (Prov. 8:35)
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Prov. 12:2• 2A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. (Prov. 12:2)
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Prov. 13:15• 15Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard. (Prov. 13:15)
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Rom. 14:17‑18• 17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
 18For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. (Rom. 14:17‑18)
• At sin, and the offering for it, he mocks. He has never realized the heinousness of the one, nor the need of the other. Consequently it is in vain to try to turn him from his lawless course. The righteous find acceptance because they have judged themselves, and bowed to God’s just and holy sentence. (“Proverbs Fourteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Fools make a mock at trespass; but forf the upright there is favourg.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "among."
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Or "good-will."