Inherit folly; they possess it as their inheritance or portion, holding it fast, improving it, delighting and glorying in it. In like manner David took God's testimonies for his heritage, Psalms 119:111, where the word is the same; withal he may imply that folly is natural and hereditary to them. Are crowned with knowledge; they place their honour and happiness in a sound, and practical, and saving knowledge of God, and of their own duty, and therefore earnestly pursue after it, and heartily embrace it.
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Proverbs 14:18
18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.