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Proverbs 9 (AMP)

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¹ WISDOM HAS built her house; she has hewn out and set up her seven pillars. ² She has killed her beasts, she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. ³ She has sent out her maids to cry from the highest places of the town: ⁴ Whoever is simple (easily led astray and wavering), let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, Wisdom says to him, ⁵ Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mixed. ⁶ Leave off, simple ones and live! And walk in the way of insight and understanding. ⁷ He who rebukes a scorner heaps upon himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man gets for himself bruises. ⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. ⁹ Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man (one upright and in right standing with God) and he will increase in learning. ¹⁰ The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning (the chief and choice part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and understanding. ¹¹ For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. ¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty. ¹³ The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she knows nothing whatever . ¹⁴ For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town, ¹⁵ Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way: ¹⁶ Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, ¹⁷ Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet ; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there , and that her invited guests are in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).