Provérbios 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Nota de Estudo
Study Note
Wisdom's rhetorical question — 'how long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?' — is the opening of her public appeal, cast as a street sermon addressing three types of the foolish. The simple (pethi) are naive and impressionable; the scoffers (letsim) are contemptuous and resistant; the fools (kesilim) are stubborn in their anti-intellectual orientation. The question 'how long?' introduces urgency: the invitation is time-limited, and continued rejection of Wisdom will eventually result in disaster from which she will not rescue. The passage (1:20-33) presents Wisdom as a prophet figure, using prophetic speech forms to create a personification that the rest of Proverbs will develop into theological depth in chapters 8-9.
Outras Traduções
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
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