To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation.

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.

And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,

Understand craftiness, ye simple: and ye foolish, understand the heart

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

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

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

The simple will believe to every word: and the prudent will understand to his going.

The simple inherit folly: and the prudent shall be surrounded with knowledge.

Thou shalt strike him mocking, and the simple will be crafty: and reprove to him understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge.

The crafty saw evil, and he will hide, and the simple passed on and were punished.

The prudent one saw the evil, he hid himself; the simple passed and were punished.