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Proverbs 8:5
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Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;develop common sense, you who are foolish.
You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
You who are uneducated, seek wisdom. You who are foolish, get understanding.
You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
"O you naive or inexperienced [who are easily misled], understand prudence and seek astute common sense; And, O you [closed-minded, self-confident] fools, understand wisdom [seek the insight and self-discipline that leads to godly living].
"You naive ones, understand prudence; And, you fools, understand wisdom!
You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
O simple ones, understand prudence;And, O fools, understand a heart of wisdom.
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
You who don't direct your lives, understand caution; as for you, you fools, get some common sense!
O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
You who are ignorant, learn to be wise. You who are foolish, get some common sense.
So that the simple ones may understand prudence and the fools understand in their heart.
Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.
Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn intelligence.
Understand wisdom, simple ones; and fools, be of an understanding heart.
Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
O yee simple, vnderstand wisedome: and yee fooles, be yee of an vnderstanding heart.
Take heede vnto knowledge O ye ignoraunt, be ye wise in heart O ye fooles.
O ye simple, understand subtlety, and ye that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.
O ye simple, understand subtilty; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Litle children, vndirstonde ye wisdom; and ye vnwise men, `perseyue wisdom.
O you simple, understand prudence; And, you fools, be of an understanding heart.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
O you simple ones, understand prudence, And you fools, be of an understanding heart.
You simple people, use good judgment. You foolish people, show some understanding.
O child-like ones, learn to use wisdom. O fools, make your mind understand.
O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.
Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;
O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.
O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.
Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,
"O naive ones, understand prudence; And, O fools, understand wisdom.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 9:4, Psalms 19:7, Psalms 94:8, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 55:1-3, Acts 26:18, 1 Corinthians 1:28, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18
Reciprocal: Job 5:2 - the foolish Job 28:28 - unto man Job 33:33 - I Job 36:10 - commandeth Psalms 5:5 - The Psalms 14:2 - any Psalms 75:4 - I said Proverbs 1:4 - subtlety Proverbs 2:6 - out Proverbs 4:5 - Get wisdom Proverbs 7:7 - the simple Proverbs 17:16 - a price Mark 7:14 - and understand Luke 11:40 - fools Romans 1:14 - to the unwise Romans 16:18 - the simple 1 Corinthians 1:30 - wisdom Colossians 1:28 - in all Titus 3:3 - foolish
Cross-References
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O ye simple, understand wisdom,.... The Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, particularly the doctrine of salvation by Christ; it is the highest wisdom to know Christ and him crucified: and they are "the simple" who are weak and easy to be imposed upon, who are here called unto; and generally speaking such are they to whom the mysteries of grace are made known, while they are hid from the wise and prudent;
and ye fools, be of an understanding heart; or "cause the heart to understand"; or "get an understanding heart" t; make use of all means to get spiritual wisdom and understanding; all men, let them be what they will in other respects, are fools as to a spiritual and experimental knowledge of divine things; and that man can only be said to have truly an understanding heart that knows his own folly, the plague of his heart, his need of Christ, the worth of him; and has an understanding given him to know him and his interest in him.
t הבינו לב "facite cor intelligere", Baynus, Mercerus; "facite ut cor vestrum intelligat", so some in Vatablus; "acquirite animum sapientem", Gejerus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 8:5. O ye simple — פתאים pethaim, ye that are deceived, and with flattering words and fair speeches deluded and drawn away.
Ye fools — כסילים kesilim, ye stupid, stiffnecked, senseless people. That preaching is never likely to do much good, that is not pointed; specifying and describing vices, and charging them home on the consciences of transgressors. Where this is not done, the congregation is unconcerned; no man supposes he has any thing to do in the business, especially if the preacher takes care to tell them, "These were the crimes of Jews, Romans, Greeks, of the people at Corinth, Philippi, Thessalonica, Laodicea, and of heathens in general; but I hope better things of you, who have been born in a Christian land, and baptized in the Christian faith." Thus he arms their consciences in double brass against the good effects of his own teaching.
