Proverbs 1:22 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²² “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² 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)

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

Common English Bible

²² “How long will you clueless people love your naïveté, mockers hold their mocking dear, and fools hate knowledge?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² "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

²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:22 Cross References

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in 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, that they may serve me.

Exodus 16:28

And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Proverbs 1:21

on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:4

that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 19:29

Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 21:11

When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

Proverbs 21:24

“Scoffer” is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 22:3

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

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

Proverbs 7:7

and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Numbers 14:27

“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Luke 19:42

saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.

John 3:20

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.