How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Gill's Exposition
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?.... Simple foolish things, agreeably to their character, being weak simple men, men of weak capacities and shallow understandings; and such were the…
Barnes' Notes
Compare the Psa 1:1 note. (1) The “simple,” literally, “open,” i. e. fatally open to evil; (2) the “scorners,” mocking at all good; (3) lastly, the “fools” in the sense of being hardened, obstinate,…
Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of.…
Cambridge Bible
simple unwary, see Pro 1:1 above, note.
love simplicity when you stand in need of that subtilty, which wisdom offers you (Pro 1:1). When war is at the gates, you are not safe without armour. "Parvuli,…
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