Proverbs 9
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Wisdom Hosts a Banquet
1Wisdom has built her house.
She has carved out her seven pillars.
2She has prepared her meat.
She has mixed her wine.
She has set her table.
3She has sent out her servant girls.
She calls from the highest places in the city,
4“Whoever is gullible turn in here!”
She says to a person without sense,
5“Come, eat my bread,
and drink the wine I have mixed.
6Stop being gullible and live.
Start traveling the road to understanding.”
Wisdom Prolongs Life
7Whoever corrects a mocker receives abuse.
Whoever warns a wicked person gets hurt.
8Do not warn a mocker, or he will hate you.
Warn a wise person, and he will love you.
9Give ⌞advice⌟ to a wise person,
and he will become even wiser.
Teach a righteous person,
and he will learn more.
10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11You will live longer because of me,
and years will be added to your life.
12If you are wise, your wisdom will help you.
If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.
Stupidity Imitates Wisdom’s Banquet
13The woman Stupidity is loud, gullible, and ignorant.
14She sits at the doorway of her house.
She is enthroned on the high ground of the city
15and calls to those who pass by,
those minding their own business,
16“Whoever is gullible turn in here!”
She says to a person without sense,
17“Stolen waters are sweet,
and food eaten in secret is tasty.”
18But he does not know
that the souls of the dead are there,
that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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Proverbs 9
9
Wisdom and the Foolish Woman
1Wisdom hath builded her house,
she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2she hath killed her beasts;
she hath mingled her wine;
she hath also furnished her table.
3She hath sent forth her maidens:
she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither:
as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
5Come, eat of my bread,
and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6Forsake the foolish, and live;
and go in the way of understanding.
7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame:
and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:
rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:
teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
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Job 28.28; Ps 111.10; Prov 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.
11For by me thy days shall be multiplied,
and the years of thy life shall be increased.
12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself:
but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
13A foolish woman is clamorous:
she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
14For she sitteth at the door of her house,
on a seat in the high places of the city,
15to call passengers
who go right on their ways:
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither:
and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17Stolen waters are sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18But he knoweth not that the dead are there;
and that her guests are in the depths of hell.#9.18 hell, Hebrew Sheol.
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