"How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Proverbs 1:4
To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

Proverbs 1:21
in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:29
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 1:32
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 5:12
and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 7:7
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

Proverbs 8:5
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

Proverbs 9:4
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" she says to him who lacks judgment.

Proverbs 21:24
Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man--of him who acts with excessive pride.

Proverbs 22:3
The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Jeremiah 13:27
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields--I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?"

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?