²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scoffers delight them in scoffing,
And fools hate knowledge?

^7 [a]Go into the presence of a foolish man,
And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

²⁰ There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
But a foolish man swalloweth it up.

¹² A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;
But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.