New Revised Standard Version
The simple are adorned with folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
Stupidity leads to foolishness; be smart and learn.

New American Bible
The simple have folly as an adornment, but the shrewd wear knowledge as a crown.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for knowledge.

The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for knowledge.

inherit

Proverbs 3:35 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.

Proverbs 11:29 The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.

Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

Matthew 23:29-32 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, . . .

1 Peter 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

the prudent

Proverbs 4:7-9 Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. . . .

Proverbs 11:30 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Daniel 12:3 But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

2 Timothy 4:8 As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

1 Peter 5:4 And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.