Proverbs 14:9

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Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'

Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard.

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.