Proverbs 18:2
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What does Proverbs 18:2 mean?
A fool hath no delight in understanding
In natural understanding, and in the improvement of his mind in
it; he delights not in books, nor in the conversation of men of
learning and sense: or in spiritual understanding, in the
understanding of spiritual things; these are foolishness to a
natural man; nor does he delight in reading the Scriptures, nor
in hearing the word, and attendance on it in the house of God,
but is weary of such exercises; but that his heart may
discover itself;
and the folly that is in it: such men only desire to have some
knowledge and understanding, to make a show of it, that they may
be thought to be wise, and to be capable of talking of things as
if they understood them, when it is only to the exposing of
themselves and their ignorance; some persons attain to no more
learning and knowledge than just to be capable to show that they
are fools. Or, "but in the discovery of his heart" F11; he
delights in discovering that; not the wisdom, but the folly that
is in it.
F11 (wbl twlgthb Ma yk) "sed in patefacere cor ejus", Vatablus; "sed in detectione cordis sui", Piscator; "sed sane ut enudet cor suum", Schultens.
