Proverbs 9
9
1 WISDOM HAS built her house; she has hewn out and set up her seven [perfect number of] pillars.
2 She has killed her beasts, she has mixed her [spiritual] wine; she has also set her table. [Matt. 22:2-4.]
3 She has sent out her maids to cry from the highest places of the town:
4 Whoever is simple (easily led astray and wavering), let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, [God's] Wisdom says to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the [spiritual] wine which I have mixed. [Isa. 55:1; John 6:27.]
6 Leave off, simple ones [forsake the foolish and simpleminded] and live! And walk in the way of insight and understanding.
7 He who rebukes a scorner heaps upon himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man gets for himself bruises.
8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. [Ps. 141:5.]
9 Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man (one upright and in right standing with God) and he will increase in learning.
10 The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning (the chief and choice part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and understanding.
11 For by me [Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty.
13 The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she [willfully and recklessly] knows nothing whatever [of eternal value].
14 For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town,
15 Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way:
16 Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
17 Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]
18 But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).
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Proverbs 9
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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.
10The 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.
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