Proverbs 1:22

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Summary

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

Ye simple

The scorners

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Bible References

Ye simple

And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him -

Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion?

But go ye, and learn what this meaneth, - Mercy, I desire, and not, sacrifice; For I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, - because, meek, am I and lowly, in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls;

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that slayeth the prophets, and stoneth them that have been sent unto her, - how often, would I have gathered thy children, like as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, - and ye would not!

If thou hadst got to know, in this day, even thou, the conditions of peace -- But, now, are they hid from thine eyes:

And, the Spirit and the Bride, say - Come! and, he that heareth, let him say - Come! and, he that is athirst, let him come, - he that will, let him take of the water of life, freely.

The scorners

Though at scoffers he scoffeth, yet, to the humbled, he granteth favour.

A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy.

A scoffer, loveth not, one who reproveth him, unto the wise, doth he not go.

Prepared for scoffers, are punishments, and stripes, for the back of dullards.

When the scoffer is punished, the simple, becometh wise, when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;

How happy the man, who hath not walked in the counsel of the lawless, - and, in the way of sinners, hath not stood, and, in the seat of scoffers, hath not sat;

Of this, first, taking note - that there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on,

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What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;

Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him -

Thus, said Yahweh unto me - Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter in, and through which they come out, - also in all the gates of Jerusalem.

Be going, therefore, into the crossways of the roads, and, as many as ye shall find, call ye into the marriage-feast.

And, the light, in the darkness, shineth; and, the darkness, thereof, laid not hold.