Proverbs 1:22 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²² ‘How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² 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)

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

Common English Bible

²² “How long will you clueless people love your naïveté, mockers hold their mocking dear, and fools hate knowledge?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² "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

²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:22 Tagairtí Cros

Job 34:7

Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

Psalm 94:8

Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to 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, so that they may worship me.

Exodus 16:28

Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?

Proverbs 1:21

on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:29

since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord.

Proverbs 1:32

For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Proverbs 1:4

for giving prudence to those who are simple, knowledge and discretion to the young –

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 14:6

The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Proverbs 15:12

Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.

Proverbs 19:29

Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 21:11

When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.

Proverbs 21:24

The proud and arrogant person – ‘Mocker’ is his name – behaves with insolent fury.

Proverbs 22:3

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Proverbs 3:34

He mocks proud mockers but shows favour to the humble and oppressed.

Proverbs 5:12

You will say, ‘How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

Proverbs 8:5

You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.

Jeremiah 13:27

your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?’

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbour wicked thoughts?

Numbers 14:27

‘How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.

Matthew 17:17

‘You unbelieving and perverse generation,’ Jesus replied, ‘how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.’

Matthew 23:37

‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’

Luke 19:42

and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace – but now it is hidden from your eyes.

John 3:20

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

2 Peter 3:3

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.