let the wise listen and add to their learning,(A)
    and let the discerning get guidance—

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The fear of the Lord(A) is the beginning of knowledge,
    but fools[a] despise wisdom(B) and instruction.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:7 The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs, and often elsewhere in the Old Testament, denote a person who is morally deficient.

32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(A)

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15 The way of fools seems right to them,(A)
    but the wise listen to advice.(B)

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