²² “How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers^(A) enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?^(B)

³² For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,^(A)
and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

⁵ Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;
develop common sense, you who are foolish.

¹³ The woman Folly is rowdy;^(A)
she is gullible and knows nothing.^(B)
14 She sits by the doorway of her house,
on a seat at the highest point of the city,
¹⁵ calling to those who pass by,
who go straight ahead on their paths:^(C)
16 “Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”
To the one who lacks sense, she says,
¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”^(D)
18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,^(E)
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.^(F)