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9:1  Wisdom hath built her house; she hath hewn out her seven pillars.
9:2  She hath killed her beasts, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also furnished her table.
9:3  She hath sent forth her maidens, she crieth from the highest places of the city:
9:4  “Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither!” As for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him:
9:5  “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mixed.
9:6  Forsake the foolish and live, and go in the way of understanding.”
9:7  He that reproveth a scorner getteth for himself shame, and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a reproach.
9:8  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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 thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
9:12  If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; but if thou be a scorner, thou alone shall bear it.
9:13  A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple and knoweth nothing.
9:14  For she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city,
9:15  to call passers by who go rightly on their ways:
9:16  “Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither.” And as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,
9:17  “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
9:18  But he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell. The proverbs of Solomon: