Bible verse
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
Proverbs 8:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 8.
1 Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
2 On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.
3 Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
4 “To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men.
5 O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
6 Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
7 For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
9 They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
KJV
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
ASV
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
ERV
O ye simple, understand subtilty; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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