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9:1  Lady Wisdom has built her house; she has supported it with seven pillars.
9:2  She’s prepared a feast: She’s slaughtered her animals, poured a spiced wine, and set her table.
9:3  She has sent out her servants with the invitation to come to the party; she, too, calls out from the highest point of the city:
9:4  Lady Wisdom: Whoever is young and gullible, turn in here. You are welcome in this place! Then, turning to those who are naive, she says:
9:5  Lady Wisdom: Come in. Come, eat my bread, and drink my spiced wine.
9:6  Give up your gullible ways, your naive thoughts, for true life. Set your course for understanding.
9:7  Whoever tries to discipline a scoffer should expect a hail of insults in return. Whoever tries to correct an evildoer is likely to get hurt in the process.
9:8  So do not correct a scoffer unless you are ready to be hated, but correct the wise and you will be loved.
9:9  Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser. Teach upstanding people, and they will learn even more.
9:10  Reverence for the Eternal, the one True God, is the beginning of wisdom; true knowledge of the Holy One is the start of understanding.
9:11  Lady Wisdom: Through me your days will be lengthened, and years will be added to your life.
9:12  If you are wise, wisdom is its own reward. If you mock what you don’t understand, you alone will suffer the consequences.
9:13  Compared to Wisdom, the Lady Folly is rowdy and loud, naive and ignorant.
9:14  She sits by the door of her house, on a bench at the highest place in the city,
9:15  Crooning to passersby who hurry straight on to their destinations:
9:16  Lady Folly: Whoever is young and gullible, turn in here. You are welcome in this place! Then, she turns to the naive.
9:17  Lady Folly: Stolen water tastes so much sweeter! Bread secreted away is much more satisfying to eat!
9:18  But those who pause to listen to Lady Folly do not know death is the next stop, that her guests are walking cadavers.