Proverbs 17:24
Good News Translation
An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.

New Revised Standard Version
The discerning person looks to wisdom, but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone with wisdom knows what makes good sense, but fools can never make up their minds.

New American Bible
On the countenance of a discerning person is wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

before

Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 15:14 The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 2:14 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

Ecclesiastes 8:1 The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

John 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

the eyes

Proverbs 23:5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
23The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment. 24Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Proverbs 17:23
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