‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 9:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Whoever is inexperienced, enter here! ’ To the one who lacks sense, she says, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever is simple (easily led astray and wavering), let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, [God's] Wisdom says to him, American Standard Version (1901) Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him, Common English Bible “Whoever is naive turn aside here,” she says to those who lack sense. Catholic Public Domain Version "If anyone is little, let him come to me." And to the unwise, she has said: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said: |
‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
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.
‘Whoever is inexperienced, enter here! ’ To the one who lacks sense, she says,
A road will be there and a way; it will be called the Holy Way. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for the one who walks the path. Fools will not wander on it.
At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.
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.