Proverbs - Chapter 9 - New International Version
- Wisdom has built her house; she has set up "its seven pillars.
- She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city,
- "Let all who are simple come to my house!" To those who have no sense she says,
- "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed.
- Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight."
- Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.
- Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
- Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.
- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- For through wisdom "your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
- If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
- Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.
- She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
- calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,
- "Let all who are simple come to my house!" To those who have no sense she says,
- "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!"
- But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.