Proverbs 9
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1 Wisdom has built her house.
She has carved out her seven pillars.
2She has prepared her meat.
She has mixed her wine.
She has also set her table.
3 She has sent out her maidens.
She cries from the highest places of the city:
4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
5“Come, eat some of my bread,
Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
6 Leave your simple ways, and live.
Walk in the way of understanding.”
7 One who corrects a mocker invites insult.
One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.
Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
9 Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.
Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.
The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 For by me your days will be multiplied.
The years of your life will be increased.
12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.
If you mock, you alone will bear it.
13 The foolish woman is loud,
undisciplined, and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house,
on a seat in the high places of the city,
15 to call to those who pass by,
who go straight on their ways,
16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”
As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
17“Stolen water is sweet.
Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.#9:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Proverbs 9
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The Way of Wisdom
1 # [Matt. 16:18; 1 Pet. 2:5]; See Eph. 2:20-22 Wisdom has built her house;
she has hewn her #[Rev. 1:4] seven #[1 Tim. 3:15]pillars.
2She has #[Matt. 22:4] slaughtered her beasts; she has #ch. 23:30; Song 8:2 mixed her wine;
she has also #Ps. 23:5; [Luke 14:17]set her table.
3She has #[Ps. 68:11; Matt. 22:3; 23:34] sent out her young women to #ch. 8:1, 2 call
from #ver. 14; ch. 8:2; [Matt. 10:27]the highest places in the town,
4 # ver. 16; [Matt. 11:25; 1 Cor. 1:26] “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
# ch. 6:32 To him who lacks sense she says,
5“Come, #[Song 5:1; Isa. 55:1; John 6:27] eat of my bread
and #[John 7:37] drink of #[See ver. 2 above]the wine I have mixed.
6Leave #See ch. 1:4 your simple ways,#9:6 Or Leave the company of the simple and #[ver. 11] live,
# [ch. 23:19] and walk in the way of insight.”
7Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
8 # [Matt. 7:6] Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
# See Ps. 141:5 reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
9Give instruction#9:9 Hebrew lacks instruction to a wise man, and he will be #[Matt. 13:12] still wiser;
teach a righteous man, and he will #ch. 1:5increase in learning.
10 # See ch. 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and #ch. 30:3the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
11For by me #[ch. 10:27]; See ch. 3:2your days will be multiplied,
and years will be added to your life.
12 # [Job 22:2, 3; 1 Cor. 3:8; Gal. 6:5] If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
The Way of Folly
13 # For ver. 13-18, see ch. 7:7-27 The woman Folly is #ch. 7:11 loud;
she is seductive#9:13 Or full of simpleness and #ch. 5:6knows nothing.
14She sits at the door of her house;
she takes a seat on #ver. 3the highest places of the town,
15calling to those who pass by,
who are #[ver. 6]going straight on their way,
16 # ver. 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
And to him who lacks sense she says,
17 # [ch. 5:15] “Stolen water is sweet,
and #[ch. 20:17; 30:20]bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18But he does not know #See ch. 7:27that the dead#9:18 Hebrew Rephaim are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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