O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple;
Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young—
The wise will inherit honor, but stubborn fools, disgrace.
I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion.
“To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all who live.
“You who are simple, turn in here!” To those without sense she says,
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.
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.’
God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,