Proverbs - Chapter 9 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Wisdom has built her house and made seven columns for it.
  • 2. She has had an animal killed for a feast, mixed spices in the wine, and set the table.
  • 3. She has sent her servant women to call out from the highest place in town:
  • 4. "Come in, ignorant people!" And to the foolish she says,
  • 5. "Come, eat my food and drink the wine that I have mixed.
  • 6. Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge."
  • 7. If you correct conceited people, you will only be insulted. If you reprimand evil people, you will only get hurt.
  • 8. Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.
  • 9. Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.
  • 10. To be wise you must first have reverence for the LORD. If you know the Holy One, you have understanding.
  • 11. Wisdom will add years to your life.
  • 12. You are the one who will profit if you have wisdom, and if you reject it, you are the one who will suffer.
  • 13. Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman.
  • 14. She sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the highest part of town,
  • 15. and calls out to people passing by, who are minding their own business:
  • 16. "Come in, ignorant people!" To the foolish she says,
  • 17. "Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better."
  • 18. Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.
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