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 on the highest places of the city,

9 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she said to him,

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

9 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

9 : 7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.

9 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

9 : 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

9 : 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

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

9 : 12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

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

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

9 : 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

9 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she said to him,

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

9 : 18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.