O naïve ones, learn prudence! Fools, gain understanding!
It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other end. Nothing is hidden from its heat.
Pay attention, stupid among the people! Fools, when will you comprehend?
“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?
For the backsliding of the naïve will kill them and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
to give discernment to the naïve, knowledge and discretion to the youth
The wise inherit honor, but fools are held up in disgrace.
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and acquire knowledge with discretion.
“To you, O men, I call out! My cry is to all mankind!
“Whoever is naïve, turn in here!” To those who lack understanding, she says:
Adonai goes out as a mighty one. He stirs up His zeal like a man of war. He will shout, yes, raise a war cry! He will prevail over His enemies.
to open their eyes—so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive release from sins as well as a place among those who are made holy through trusting in Me.’
and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—