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22 “How long will you gullible[a] people love being gullible?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing?
How long will fools hate knowledge?

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  1. Proverbs 1:22 Or naïve

22 How long,[a] O simple ones, will you love simplicity?
    And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing,
    and fools hate knowledge?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:22 Literally “Until when”

Keep away from a foolish person,
since you will not learn anything from his lips.

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Leave the presence of a foolish man,[a]
    for you will not come to know words of knowledge.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 14:7 Literally “from the presence belonging to a man of foolishness”
  2. Proverbs 14:7 Literally “lips of knowledge”

20 Good food and olive oil are stored up in the dwellings of the wise,
but a foolish person devours everything he has.

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20 Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise,
    but the foolish person[a] will devour them.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 21:20 Or “foolish of mankind”
  2. Proverbs 21:20 Literally “it”

12 A sensible person sees trouble and hides,
but naïve people keep going and pay the penalty.

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12 When the clever sees danger, he hides;
    the simple go on and suffer.

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