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9:1  Wisdom has built a palace supported on seven pillars,
9:2  and has prepared a great banquet, and mixed the wines,
9:3  and sent out her maidens inviting all to come. She calls from the busiest intersections in the city,
9:4  “Come, you simple ones without good judgment;
9:5  come to wisdom’s banquet and drink the wines that I have mixed.
9:6  Leave behind your foolishness and begin to live; learn how to be wise.”
9:7  If you rebuke a mocker, you will only get a smart retort; yes, he will snarl at you. So don’t bother with him; he will only hate you for trying to help him. But a wise man, when rebuked, will love you all the more.
9:8  If you rebuke a mocker, you will only get a smart retort; yes, he will snarl at you. So don’t bother with him; he will only hate you for trying to help him. But a wise man, when rebuked, will love you all the more.
9:9  Teach a wise man, and he will be the wiser; teach a good man, and he will learn more.
9:10  For the reverence and fear of God are basic to all wisdom. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.
9:11  “I, Wisdom, will make the hours of your day more profitable and the years of your life more fruitful.”
9:12  Wisdom is its own reward, and if you scorn her, you hurt only yourself.
9:13  A prostitute is loud and brash and never has enough of lust and shame.
9:14  She sits at the door of her house or stands at the street corners of the city,
9:15  whispering to men going by and to those minding their own business.
9:16  “Come home with me,” she urges simpletons.
9:17  “Stolen melons are the sweetest; stolen apples taste the best!”
9:18  But they don’t realize that her former guests are now citizens of hell.