New Revised Standard Version
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Contemporary English Version
"How much longer will you enjoy being stupid fools? Won't you ever stop sneering and laughing at knowledge?

New American Bible
“How long, you naive ones, will you love naivete,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

how

Proverbs 6:9 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

Exodus 10:3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

Exodus 16:28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

Numbers 14:27 How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

ye simple

Proverbs 7:7 Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,

Proverbs 9:4-6,16-18 Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. . . .

Psalm 94:8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

Matthew 9:13 Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

Matthew 11:29,30 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. . . .

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Luke 19:42 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

Revelation 22:17 And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come. And he that will, let him take the water of life, freely.

the scorners

Proverbs 3:34 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.

Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 15:12 A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Proverbs 21:11 When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

Job 34:7 What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

fools

Proverbs 1:7,29 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Proverbs 5:12 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.