The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out. Parasites and his own vanity may make the rich man mistake the flattery that he receives as due to his wisdom, and not merely to his riches. But the poor man who hath the spiritual understanding which discriminates between the true and the false riches, 'searcheth out' his pretensions to wisdom, and disproves them (Proverbs 18:17; Job 32:9; Ezekiel 28:2-4). Naaman's servants 'searched him out' (2 Kings 5:13); the blind man, the Pharisees (John 9:30-34).