"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

If the righteous on earth will be repaid, {how much more} the wicked and sinner.

Sheol and Abaddon [are] before Yahweh, {how much more} the hearts of the children of men!

Joy [belongs] to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good [it is]!

Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.

All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.

[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.