How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Ye simple ones - פתים pethayim, ye who have been seduced and deceived. See on Proverbs 1:4 (note).
Compare the Psalm 1:1 note.
(1) The "simple," literally, "open," i. e. fatally open to evil;
(2) the "scorners," mocking at all good;
(3) lastly, the "fools" in the sense of being hardened, obstinate, perverse, hating the knowledge they have rejected.
1:22 Scoffers - That scoff at religion and contemn the word and faithful ministers of God.