| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. |
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