Proverbs 9

¹Wisdom hath builded her house;

²She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;

³She hath sent forth her maidens;

⁴Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither:

⁵Come, eat ye of my bread,

⁶Leave off, ye simple ones, and live;

⁷He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling;

⁸Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee:

⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:

¹⁰The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom;

¹¹For by me thy days shall be multiplied,

¹²If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself;

¹³The foolish woman is clamorous;

¹⁴And she sitteth at the door of her house,

¹⁵To call to them that pass by,

¹⁶Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither;

¹⁷Stolen waters are sweet,

¹⁸But he knoweth not that the dead are there;