The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.(A)

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A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

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22 “How long will you who are simple(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate(B) knowledge?

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22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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24 The proud and arrogant person(A)—“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.

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24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

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22 Then an overwhelming army will be swept away(A) before him; both it and a prince of the covenant will be destroyed.(B)

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22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

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On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,(A)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.(B)

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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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