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 “You naïve ones, how long will you love naiveté?
    And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing
        or fools hate knowledge?”

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34 Toward the (A)scorners he (B)is scornful,
    (C)but to the humble he gives favor.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 3:34 Or grace

34 Though God[a] scoffs at scoffers,
    he gives grace to the humble.

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  1. Proverbs 3:34 Lit. he

Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
    and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
(A)Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
    (B)reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

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Wisdom Extends Life

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult,[a]
    and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.
Don’t rebuke a mocker or he will hate you.
    Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

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  1. Proverbs 9:7 Lit. insult to himself

(A)A scoffer seeks wisdom (B)in vain,
    but (C)knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

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A mocker seeks wisdom and finds[a] none,
    but learning comes easily to someone who understands.

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  1. Proverbs 14:6 The Heb. lacks finds

12 (A)A scoffer (B)does not like to be reproved;
    he will not go to the wise.

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12 The arrogant mocker never loves the one who corrects him;
    he will not inquire of[a] the wise.

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  1. Proverbs 15:12 Lit. not go to

25 (A)Strike (B)a scoffer, and the simple will (C)learn prudence;
    (D)reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

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25 If you scourge a scoffer,
    the simple person may learn to be discreet;
rebuke a discerning man
    and he will gain understanding.

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29 Condemnation is ready for (A)scoffers,
    and (B)beating for the backs of fools.

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29 Condemnation is appropriate for mockers,
    just as beatings are for the backs of fools.

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11 When (A)a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise;
    when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

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11 When a mocker is punished, the fool gains wisdom;
    but when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

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24 (A)“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man
    who acts with arrogant pride.

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24 The names “Proud,” “Arrogant,” and “Mocker”
    fit whoever acts with presumptuous conceit.

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10 (A)Drive out a scoffer, (B)and strife will go out,
    and (C)quarreling and abuse will cease.

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10 Throw out the mocker and strife departs, too;[a]
    furthermore, quarrels[b] and discord will end.

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  1. Proverbs 22:10 The Heb. lacks too
  2. Proverbs 22:10 Or litigation

(A)The devising[a] of folly is sin,
    and (B)the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

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  1. Proverbs 24:9 Or scheming

To devise folly is sin,
    and people detest a scoffer.

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(A)Scoffers set a city aflame,
    but the wise turn away wrath.

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Scornful men enflame a city,
    but the wise defuse anger.

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