⁶ The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.^(A)

²² “How long will you who are simple^(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate^(B) knowledge?

²⁴ The proud and arrogant person^(A)—“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.

⁵ On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,^(A)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.^(B)