KJ3 Literal Translation
Proverbs 9
The discipline and doctrine of wisdom.
1Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars;
2she has slaughtered her slaughter; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
3She has sent out her maidens; she cries on the heights of the city;
4One who is of simplicity, turn in here; one lacking heart, she says to him,
5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine I have mixed.
6Forsake simplicity, and live, and go straight in the way of understanding.
7He rebuking one scorning takes shame for himself, and one reproving a wicked one has his own blemish.
8Do not reprove one scorning, lest he hate you; reprove a wise one, and he will love you.
9Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; cause a just one to know and he will add to learning.
10The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.
11For by Me your days shall increase and shall be added to you the years of life.
12If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself, but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
13A woman of foolishness is noisy; one of simplicity, and she knows not what.
14And she sits at the door of her house, in a seat in the high places of the city,
15to call those passing in the way, who are going straight on their paths:
16One of simplicity turn aside here. And to the one lacking heart, she says to him:
17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18But he does not know that the departed spirits are there; In the depths of Sheol are her called ones.
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