A clever one foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple go on and are punished.
“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
The wise fears and turns away from evil, But a fool rushes on and is reckless.
The reward of humility is the fear of יהוה, Riches, and esteem and life.
A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.
One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart,
By belief, Noaḥ
so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,