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22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
    How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery,
    and fools hate knowledge?

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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”

Stay away from a foolish man,
    for you won’t find knowledge on 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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Footnotes

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

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

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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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Footnotes

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

12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;
    but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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

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