Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
To execute inventions `is' as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.
An abomination to Jehovah `are' the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way `are' His delight.
The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.
Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous `is' hard.
If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.
And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'
For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
`And if his hand reach not to the sufficiency of a lamb, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering -- he who hath sinned -- two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to Jehovah, one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering;
that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,