Wisdom gives an invitation
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📚✭Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars.
2 📚She has slaughtered her animals;
she has mixed her wine;
she has also set her table.
3 📚She has sent out her maidens.
She calls out on the highest places
of the city:
4 📚✭“Whoever is simple,
let him turn in here!” As for the
one who lacks understanding,
she says to him:
5 📚“Come, eat my bread,
and drink the wine which I have mixed.
6 📚Forsake folly, and live,
and go in the way of understanding”.
7 📚He who corrects a scorner gets contempt
for himself,
and he who rebukes a wicked man gets
an insult for himself.
8 📚✭Do not rebuke a scorner,
lest he hate you.
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9 📚Give instruction to a wise man,
and he will be even wiser.
Teach a just man, and he will increase
in learning.
10 📚The fear✭ of the LORD is
the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the holy✭ is understanding.
11 📚✭For by me your days will be multiplied,
and the years of your life will be increased.
12 📚If you are wise,
you will be wise for your benefit✭,
but if you scorn✭,
you alone will bear it.
Folly also invites men
13 📚The woman Folly is loud✭.
She is a simpleton,
and knows nothing.
14 📚And she sits at the door of her house,
on a seat on the heights of the city,
15 📚To call to those who pass by,
going straight on their ways:
16 📚“Whoever is simple,
let him turn in here!” And as for the one
who lacks understanding, she says to him:
17 📚✭“Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant”.
18 📚✭But he does not know that
the dead are there,
and that her guests go
to the depths of hell✭.