Proverbs - Chapter 9 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
  • 2. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
  • 3. She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town,
  • 4. "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks sense she says,
  • 5. "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
  • 6. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
  • 7. Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
  • 8. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • 9. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • 10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
  • 11. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
  • 12. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
  • 13. The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.
  • 14. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,
  • 15. calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,
  • 16. "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him who lacks sense she says,
  • 17. "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
  • 18. But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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