‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:32 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For the apostasy of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.] American Standard Version (1901) For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. Common English Bible The immature will die because they turn away; smugness will destroy fools. Catholic Public Domain Version The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
A wise person is cautious and turns from evil, but a fool is easily angered and is careless.
for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.’
Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
So I will choose their punishment, and I will bring on them what they dread because I called and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen; they did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria – the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.
But if you are without discipline #– #which all receive #– #then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.