King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”
Verse in context — Proverbs 1
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;