Proverbs 1:22
Revised Standard Version
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:22
American Standard Version
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scoffers delight them in scoffing,
And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 14:7
Revised Standard Version
7 Leave the presence of a fool,
for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Proverbs 14:7
American Standard Version
7 [a]Go into the presence of a foolish man,
And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 14:7 Or, Go from . . . For thou wilt not etc.
Proverbs 21:20
Revised Standard Version
20 Precious treasure remains[a] in a wise man’s dwelling,
but a foolish man devours it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:20 Gk: Heb and oil
Proverbs 21:20
American Standard Version
20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
Proverbs 27:12
Revised Standard Version
12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:12
American Standard Version
12 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;
But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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