Proverbios 14:9

La Biblia de las Americas

Los necios se mofan del pecado, pero entre los rectos hay buena voluntad.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Los necios se mofan del pecado: Mas entre los rectos hay favor.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Los necios se mofan del pecado; mas entre los rectos hay favor.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Los locos se hablan pecado; mas entre los rectos hay amor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fools: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 26:18, Proverbs 26:19, Proverbs 30:20, Job 15:16, Job 34:7-9, Jude 1:18

among: Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 8:35, Proverbs 12:2, Proverbs 13:15, Romans 14:17, Romans 14:18

Reciprocal: Proverbs 15:21 - joy 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fools make a mock at sin,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those that do them; yea, sport themselves with the mischief that arises from them unto others; they make a mock at reproofs for them, and scoff at those that instruct and rebuke them; and laugh at a future state, and an awful judgment they are warned of, and in a scoffing manner say, "where is the promise of his coming?" Some, as Aben Ezra observes, render it "a sin offering"; and interpret it of the sin offerings and sacrifices under the law, as derided by wicked men; but may be better applied to the sin offering or sacrifice of Christ, who made his soul an offering for sin, to make satisfaction and atonement for the sins of his people; this is mocked at by false teachers, who deny it; and is exposed to derision and contempt by the Papists, by their bloodless sacrifice of the mass, and by their merits and works of supererogation, which they prefer to the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. The words may be rendered, "sin makes a mock of fools" h; it deceives them, it promises them pleasure, or profit, or honour, but gives them neither, but all the reverse;

but among the righteous [there is] favour: they enjoy the favour of God and man; or "there is good will" i, good will towards men; they are so far from making a mock at sin, and taking delight in the mischief that comes by it to others, that they are willing to do all good offices unto men, and by love to serve their friends and neighbours: or "there is acceptance" k; they are accepted with God upon the account of the sin offering, sacrifice, and satisfaction of Christ, which fools mock and despise.

h אוילים יליץ אשם φρονας χλευαζει πλημμελεια, Aquila Theodotion in Drusius "delictum illudit fatuos", Gejerus. i רצון "benevoleatia", Montanus, Baynus, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus. k "Acceptatio", Cocceius, Gussetius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it: “Sin mocks the fools who are its victims,” i. e., disappoints and ruins them; or, “A sin-offering does but mock the worshippers when they are willfully wicked:” they expect to gain God’s favor, and do not gain it. So taken it becomes parallel to Proverbs 15:8; Proverbs 21:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:9. Fools make a mock at sin — And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the vengeance of an eternal fire. Some learned men by their criticisms have brought this verse into embarrassments, out of which they were not able to extricate it. I believe we shall not come much nearer the sense than our present version does.