Add parallel Print Page Options

22 [a]“How long, you naive ones, will you love naivete,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1:22–23 There is textual confusion. Verse 22bc (in the third person) is an addition, interrupting vv. 22a and 23a (in the second person). The addition has been put in brackets, to separate it from the original poem. The original verses do not ask for a change of heart but begin to detail the consequences of disobedience to Wisdom.

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?

Read full chapter

You naive ones, gain prudence,
    you fools,[a] gain sense.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 8:5 Naive ones…fools: see note on 1:4.

You who are simple,(A) gain prudence;(B)
    you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:5 Septuagint; Hebrew foolish, instruct your minds