“Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 16 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.