²² “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?

⁷ Leave the presence of a fool,
    for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

²⁰ Precious treasure remains^[a] in a wise man’s dwelling,
    but a foolish man devours it.

¹² A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
    but the simple go on, and suffer for it.