Proverbs 14:9 Parallel Translations
NASB: Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is good will. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Stubborn fools make fun of guilt, but there is forgiveness among decent people.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
ASV: A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.
BBE: In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
DBY: Fools make a mock at trespass; but for the upright there is favour.
ERV: The foolish make a mock at guilt: but among the upright there is good will.
JPS: Amends pleadeth for fools; but among the upright there is good will.
WBS: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.
WEB: Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
YLT: Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.
Proverbs 14:9 Cross References
XREF:Proverbs 3:34 Though He scoffs at the scoffers, Yet He gives grace to the afflicted.

Proverbs 11:20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, But the blameless in their walk are His delight. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 14:9 Fools make a mock at {f} sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.
(f) Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same.
WES: 14:9 Favour - They find favour both with God and men.
MHC: 14:1 A woman who has no fear of God, who is wilful and wasteful, and indulges her ease, will as certainly ruin her family, as if she plucked her house down. 2. Here are grace and sin in their true colours. Those that despise God's precepts and promises, despise God and all his power and mercy. 3. Pride grows from that root of bitterness which is in the heart. The root must be plucked up, or we cannot conquer this branch. The prudent words of wise men get them out of difficulties. 4. There can be no advantage without something which, though of little moment, will affright the indolent. 5. A conscientious witness will not dare to represent anything otherwise than according to his knowledge. 6. A scorner treats Divine things with contempt. He that feels his ignorance and unworthiness will search the Scriptures in a humble spirit. 7. We discover a wicked man if there is no savour of piety in his discourse. 8. We are travellers, whose concern is, not to spy out wonders, but to get to their journey's end; to understand the rules we are to walk by, also the ends we are to walk toward. The bad man cheats himself, and goes on in his mistake. 9. Foolish and profane men consider sin a mere trifle, to be made light of rather than mourned over. Fools mock at the sin-offering; but those that make light of sin, make light of Christ. 10. We do not know what stings of conscience, or consuming passions, torment the prosperous sinner. Nor does the world know the peace of mind a serious Christian enjoys, even in poverty and sickness. 11. Sin ruins many great families; whilst righteousness often raises and strengthens even mean families. 12. The ways of carelessness, of worldliness, and of sensuality, seem right to those that walk in them; but self-deceivers prove self-destroyers. See the vanity of carnal mirth. 14. Of all sinners backsliders will have the most terror when they reflect on their own ways. 15. Eager readiness to believe what others say, has ever proved mischievous. The whole world was thus ruined at first. The man who is spiritually wise, depends on the Saviour alone for acceptance. He is watchful against the enemies of his salvation, by taking heed to God's word. 16. Holy fear guards against every thing unholy. 17. An angry man is to be pitied as well as blamed; but the revengeful is more hateful.
CONC:Amends Atonement Authority Enjoy Error Favor Favour Fools Goodwill Grace Guilt-offering Hating Making Mock Mocketh Pleadeth Pleasing Righteous Scorns Sin Sins Tents Trespass Trespass-offering Upright Wicked
PREV:Amends Atonement Authority Enjoy Error Favor Favour Fools Found Good Goodwill Hating House Making Mock Mocketh Pleadeth Pleasing Righteous Scorns Sin Sins Tents Trespass-Offering Upright Wicked
NEXT:Amends Atonement Authority Enjoy Error Favor Favour Fools Found Good Goodwill Hating House Making Mock Mocketh Pleadeth Pleasing Righteous Scorns Sin Sins Tents Trespass-Offering Upright Wicked
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved.
Online Parallel Bible