Proverbs 9:4
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 “Whoever is naïve,[a] let him turn in here.”
To someone who lacks sense she says,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 9:4 Or inexperienced or gullible
Proverbs 9:16
Evangelical Heritage Version
16 “Whoever is gullible, let him turn in here.”
To someone who lacks sense she says,
Proverbs 10:13
Evangelical Heritage Version
13 Wisdom is found on the lips of a discerning person,
but a rod is appropriate for the back of one who lacks sense.
Proverbs 24:30-34
Evangelical Heritage Version
30 I passed by a lazy man’s field
and by a vineyard that belonged to a senseless man.
31 It was overgrown with thistles
and covered with weeds.
Its stone wall was broken down.
32 When I saw this, I took it to heart.
I observed and learned a lesson:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 and poverty will come on you like a prowler,
and scarcity will come like a warrior.
Proverbs 25:6-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 Do not honor yourself in a king’s presence.
Do not stand in a place reserved for great people,
7 because it is better to be told, “Come up here,”
than for you to be humiliated before a ruler
whom your eyes have seen.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:7 Many translations associate this line with verse 8: What you have seen with your eye do not bring quickly into court. Manuscript evidence supports a connection with verse 7, but sense seems to favor including it with verse 8.
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