Proverbs 9:16
Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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- Prov 9:4 : 4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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- Prov 9:3-64 verses96%
3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- Prov 9:13-153 verses83%
13 ¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
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5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
- Prov 1:20-234 verses78%
20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 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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17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
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32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Prov 7:7-82 verses75%
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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15 ¶ The simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going.
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25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Prov 8:1-22 verses74%
1 ¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
- Prov 1:4-63 verses73%
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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9 They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
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22 ¶ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
- Prov 7:21-222 verses73%
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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8 ¶ The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.
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6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
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16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
- Prov 3:17-182 verses72%
17 Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.
18 She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
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6 ¶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy unto him that understandeth.
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12 ¶ A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
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21 ¶ Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
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5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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10 ¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
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18 ¶ The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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16 ¶ If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
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16 ¶ The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
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18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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3 ¶ A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
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25 ¶ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
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14 ¶ The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
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7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
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2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
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13 ¶ Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.