Proverbs - Chapter 9 - A Conservative Version
- Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.
- She has killed her beasts. She has mingled her wine. She has also furnished her table.
- She has sent forth her maidens. She cries out upon the highest places of the city:
- He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
- Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
- He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise.
- Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
- Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
- The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.
- For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
- If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.
- The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.
- And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
- to call to those who pass by, who go right on their ways:
- He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant.
- But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.