Proverbs 8:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.

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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, reviving the soul; the decrees of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:4

to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young—

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will inherit honor, but stubborn fools, disgrace.

Proverbs 8:12

I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion.

Proverbs 8:4

“To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all who live.

Proverbs 9:4

“You who are simple, turn in here!” To those without sense she says,

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord goes forth like a soldier; like a warrior he stirs up his fury; he cries out; he shouts aloud; he shows himself mighty against his foes.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,