Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Forsake the company and the ways of the foolish (the same word is translated "simple," Proverbs 1:22), and so you shall live; no longer the life of the beast that perisheth, but that of a man (Proverbs 4:4). "And go in the way of understanding" - spiritual understanding. This explains the previous figure - "eat of my breast," etc. (Proverbs 9:5).