Other translations
New Catholic Bible
The one who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness that is a source of bitterness.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The one who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness that increases bitterness.
Good News Translation®
You have to be intelligent to learn anything; but there is such a thing as just pretending to be intelligent, which only makes people bitter.
Wycliffe Bible
He shall not be taught, which is not wise in good. Forsooth unwisdom is, which is plenteous in evil; and wit is not, where (there) is bitterness. [He shall not be learned, that is not wise in good. There is forsooth unwisdom, that aboundeth in evil; and there is not wit, where is bitterness.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
He who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness which increases bitterness.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Those who are not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness that increases bitterness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
One who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness that increases bitterness.
Common English Bible © 2011
Those who aren’t clever won’t receive instruction, but there is a kind of cleverness that makes troubles multiply.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
One who is not clever can never be taught, but there is a cleverness filled with bitterness.
Revised Standard Version
He who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness which increases bitterness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
One who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness that increases bitterness.