Chapter 9

  Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;  

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  she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table;  

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  she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,  

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  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,  

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  Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.  

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  Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.  

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  He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked [man] [getteth] to himself a blot.  

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  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee.  

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  Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.  

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  The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy is intelligence.  

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  For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.  

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  If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.  

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  The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.  

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  And she sitteth at the entry of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,  

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  to call passers-by who go right on their ways:  

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  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,  

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  Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.  

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  But he knoweth not that the dead are there; [that] her guests are in the depths of Sheol.  

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