22 “How long, you [a]simple ones, will you love [b]simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:22 naive
  2. Proverbs 1:22 naivete

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?

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Go from the presence of a foolish man,
When you do not perceive in him the lips of (A)knowledge.

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Stay away from a fool,
    for you will not find knowledge on their lips.

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20 (A)There is desirable treasure,
And oil in the dwelling of the wise,
But a foolish man squanders it.

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20 The wise store up choice food and olive oil,
    but fools gulp theirs down.

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12 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself;
The simple pass on and are (A)punished.

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12 The prudent see danger and take refuge,
    but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.(A)

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