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“Whoever is naive or inexperienced, let him turn in here!”
As for him who lacks understanding, she says,

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“Whoever is naive or inexperienced, let him turn in here!”
And to him who lacks understanding (common sense), she says,

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On the lips of the discerning, [skillful and godly] wisdom is found,
But discipline and the rod are for the back of the one who is without common sense and understanding.

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I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding and common sense;
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And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns,
And nettles were covering its surface,
And its stone wall was broken down.
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When I saw, I considered it well;
I looked and received instruction.
33 
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest [and daydream],”
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Then your poverty will come as a robber,
And your want like an armed man.

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Do not be boastfully ambitious and claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,
Whom your eyes have seen.(A)

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