Pro 1:22-23, 8:5, 9:6 | ESV | STEP | How long , O simple ones , will you love being simple ? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge ?

Proverbs 1:22-23

22 “How long, O ^asimple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will ^bscoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools ^chate knowledge?
23 If you turn at my reproof, ^{▼▼Or Will you turn away at my reproof?}
behold, I will ^epour out my spirit to you;
I will make my words known to you.

Proverbs 8:5

5 O ^fsimple ones, learn ^gprudence;
O ^hfools, learn sense.

Proverbs 9:6

6 Leave ⁱyour simple ways, ^{▼▼Or Leave the company of the simple} and ^klive,
^land walk in the way of insight.”