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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?

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22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scoffers delight them in scoffing,
And fools hate knowledge?

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

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[a]Go into the presence of a foolish man,
And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:7 Or, Go from . . . For thou wilt not etc.

20 Precious treasure remains[a] in a wise man’s dwelling,
    but a foolish man devours it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:20 Gk: Heb and oil

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

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12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
    but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

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12 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;
But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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