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

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

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

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

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20 (A)Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling,
    but a foolish man (B)devours it.

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20 Precious treasure remains[a] in the house of the wise,
    but the fool devours it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21.20 Gk: Heb and oil

12 (A)The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
    but (B)the simple go on and suffer for it.

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12 The clever see danger and hide,
    but the simple go on and suffer for it.(A)

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