Proverbs 1:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge? American Standard Version (1901) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? Common English Bible “How long will you clueless people love your naïveté, mockers hold their mocking dear, and fools hate knowledge? Catholic Public Domain Version "Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? |
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.
The Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions?
At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.
Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.
When a scoffer is punished, the simple become wiser; when the wise are instructed, they increase in knowledge.
and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.
Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”
saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let everyone who hears say, “Come.” And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.