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Proverbs 9

¹Wisdom has built her house and made seven columns for it.

²She has had an animal killed for a feast, mixed spices in the wine, and set the table.

³She has sent her servant women to call out from the highest place in town:

⁴"Come in, ignorant people!" And to the foolish she says,

⁵"Come, eat my food and drink the wine that I have mixed.

⁶Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge."

⁷If you correct conceited people, you will only be insulted. If you reprimand evil people, you will only get hurt.

⁸Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.

⁹Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.

¹⁰To be wise you must first have reverence for the LORD. If you know the Holy One, you have understanding.

¹¹Wisdom will add years to your life.

¹²You are the one who will profit if you have wisdom, and if you reject it, you are the one who will suffer.

¹³Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman.

¹⁴She sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the highest part of town,

¹⁵and calls out to people passing by, who are minding their own business:

¹⁶"Come in, ignorant people!" To the foolish she says,

¹⁷"Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better."

¹⁸Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.