"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
Proverbs 1:22
Surrounding context
1:21 She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:
1:22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
1:23 Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.