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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For by me 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 for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. |
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