1Wisdom has built her house. She has set up its seven pillars.2She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine. She has also set her table.3She has sent out her servants. She calls out from the highest point of the city.4She says, ‘Let all who are childish come to my house!’ She speaks to those who have no sense. She says,5‘Come and eat my food. Drink the wine I have mixed.6Leave your childish ways and you will live. Walk in the way of understanding.’7When you correct someone who makes fun of others, you might be laughed at. When you warn a sinner, you might get hurt.8Don’t warn those who make fun of others, or they will hate you. Warn those who are wise, and they will love you.9Teach a wise person, and they will become even wiser. Teach a person who does right, and they will learn even more.10If you want to become wise, you must begin by respecting the LORD. To know the Holy One is to gain understanding.11Through wisdom, you will live a long time. Years will be added to your life.12If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. If you make fun of others, you alone will suffer.13The woman called Foolishness is wild. She is childish and knows nothing.14She sits at the door of her house. She sits at the highest point of the city.15She calls out to those who pass by. She calls out to those who go straight on their way. She says,16‘Let all who are childish come to my house!’ She speaks to those who have no sense.17She says, ‘Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret tastes good!’18But they don’t know that dead people are there. They don’t know that her guests are deep in the place of the dead.
English Standard Version
The Way of Wisdom
1Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.2She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.3She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town,4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says,5“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.6Leave your simple ways,* and live, and walk in the way of insight.”7Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.8Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.9Give instruction* to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.11For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
The Way of Folly
13The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive* and knows nothing.14She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,15calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”18But he does not know that the dead* are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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