Proverbs 1:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? Common English Bible “How long will you clueless people love your naïveté, mockers hold their mocking dear, and fools hate knowledge? Catholic Public Domain Version "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 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? |
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will you refuse to keep my commands and instructions?
She cries out above the commotion; she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:
For the apostasy of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, , knowledge and discretion to a young man –
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.
Judgements are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
When a mocker is punished, the inexperienced become wiser; when one teaches a wise man, he acquires knowledge.
The arrogant and proud person, named ‘Mocker,’ acts with excessive arrogance.
A sensible person sees danger and takes cover, but the inexperienced keep going and are punished.
and you will say, ‘How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
I saw among the inexperienced, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking sense.
Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.
Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
‘How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against me.
Jesus replied, ‘You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.’
‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. , For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.’
saying, ‘If you knew this day what would bring peace #– #but now it is hidden from your eyes.
For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
Above all, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days scoffing and following their own evil desires,
Both the Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come! ’ Let anyone who hears, say, ‘Come! ’ Let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who desires take the water of life freely.