Proverbs 9:4
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
BSB
ASV
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
KJV
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Whoso is simple - Let the young, heedless, and giddy attend to my teaching. Him that wanteth understanding - Literally, he that wanteth a heart; who is without couraye, is feeble and fickle, and easily drawn aside from the holy commandment.
Our Saviour came, not to call the righteous, but sinners, not the wise in their own eyes, who say they see ( John ix. 41 ), but the simple, those who are sensible of their simplicity and ashamed of it, and him that is willing to become a fool, that he may be wise, 1 Cor. iii. (2.) What the invitation is. [1.] We are invited to Wisdom's house: Turn in hither.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
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“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”
From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them…
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Through
Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
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I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
Through
Proverbs 8:5O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
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“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
