Provérbios 17:24

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

A sabedoria o alvo do inteligente, mas os olhos do insensato vagam pelas extremidades da terra.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
No rosto do entendido se v a sabedoria, mas os olhos do tolo vagam pelas extremidades da terra.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
No rosto do sbio se v a sabedoria, mas os olhos do louco esto nas extremidades da terra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: Proverbs 14:6, Proverbs 15:14, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Ecclesiastes 8:1, John 7:17

the eyes: Proverbs 23:5, Psalms 119:37, Ecclesiastes 6:9, 1 John 2:16

Reciprocal: Proverbs 8:9 - General Proverbs 24:7 - too Ecclesiastes 8:5 - a wise Matthew 11:19 - But

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding,.... Is near him, to direct and assist him; it is before him as a rule to walk by, and it is the mark he aims at. A man of spiritual understanding has the book of wisdom before him, the Scriptures of truth, which are able to make a man wise to salvation; and he steers his course according to them; he sets Christ, the Wisdom of God, always before him; and keeps his eye on the mark for the prize, all the while he is running his Christian race: or, "in the face of an understanding man is wisdom" a; it is to be seen in his countenance, which is grave and composed;

but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth; where wisdom is not to be found, it is far off from him; his mind is wandering after every object, is unsettled and unfixed to anything; and which may be discerned in his eyes, which are rolling about and turning, first one way and then another; and which shows the levity and inconstancy of his mind.

a את פני מבין חכמה "in facie prudentis (lucet) sapientia", V. L. so Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Piscator, Noldius, p. 140. No. 665. "in vultu intelligentis sapientia", Schultens

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before him - Set straight before his eyes as the mark to which they look. Others, following the Septuagint and Vulgate, interpret the verse, Wisdom is seen in the clear, stedfast look of the wise man as contrasted with the wandering gaze of the fool.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:24. Are in the ends of the earth. — Wisdom is within the sight and reach at every man: but he whose desires are scattered abroad, who is always aiming at impossible things, or is of an unsteady disposition, is not likely to find it.