Proverbs 8:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ O ye simple, understand wisdom: And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ O you simple and thoughtless ones, understand prudence; you [self-confident] fools, be of an understanding heart. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

Common English Bible

⁵ Understand skill, you who are naive. Take this to heart, you fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice.

Proverbs 8:5 Cross References

Psalm 19:7

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:4

to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

Proverbs 3:35

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Proverbs 8:12

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

Proverbs 8:4

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

Proverbs 9:4

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

1 Corinthians 1:28

and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: