Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionWhoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"Whoever is simple — turn in here!" To him who lacks heart she says,
F.O.G.M
F.O.G Message"Let all the simple come in here!" To the one lacking understanding she says,
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
Footnotes
The Hebrew *peti* (פֶּתִי, 'simple') derives from the root *patah* (פָּתָה, 'to be open/wide'), denoting one whose mind is uncritically open — not yet hardened by either wisdom or folly, still impressionable and in the balance. *Chasar lev* (חֲסַר לֵב, literally 'lacking heart') is not about emotion but about the *lev* as the seat of thought, will, and moral judgment in Hebrew anthropology — the whole deliberating inner person. FOG renders 'lacks heart' to preserve this Hebraic embodied nuance; FOG Message uses 'lacking understanding' for contemporary clarity. Crucially, Folly extends the identical invitation in v.16 — the chapter is constructed so that only genuine discernment can tell the two voices apart.
