“How long, O naive ones [you who are easily misled], will you love being simple-minded and undiscerning?
How long will scoffers [who ridicule and deride] delight in scoffing,
How long will fools [who obstinately mock truth] hate knowledge?

If you scourge a scoffer, the simple person may learn to be discreet; rebuke a discerning man and he will gain understanding.

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and'suffer for it.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

A simple man which laboureth and worketh, is better than one that is gorgeous and lacketh bread.

This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;