ACV - Proverbs - 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.