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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).