Proverbs Chapter 9

9 : 1 Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.

9 : 2 She has killed her beasts. She has mingled her wine. She has also furnished her table.

9 : 3 She has sent forth her maidens. She cries out upon the highest places of the city:

9 : 4 He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

9 : 5 Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

9 : 6 Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

9 : 7 He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man gets himself a bruise.

9 : 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

9 : 9 Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

9 : 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.

9 : 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

9 : 12 If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.

9 : 13 The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.

9 : 14 And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

9 : 15 to call to those who pass by, who go right on their ways:

9 : 16 He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

9 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant.

9 : 18 But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.