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9:1  Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars.
9:2  She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table.
9:3  She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city,
9:4  “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!” To someone weak-willed she says,
9:5  “Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed!
9:6  Don’t stay unsure of yourself, but live! Walk in the way of understanding!”
9:7  “He who corrects a scoffer only gets insulted; reproving a wicked man becomes his blemish.
9:8  If you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you; if you reprove a wise man, he will love you.
9:9  Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more.
9:10  The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.
9:11  For with me, your days will be increased; years will be added to your life.
9:12  If you are wise, your wisdom helps you; but if you scoff, you bear the consequences alone.”
9:13  The foolish woman is coarse; she doesn’t think, and she doesn’t know a thing.
9:14  She sits at the door of her house or on a seat at the heights of the city,
9:15  calling to those who pass by, to those going straight along their ways,
9:16  “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!” To someone weak-willed she says,
9:17  “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
9:18  But he doesn’t realize that the dead are there, and that those who accept her invitation are in the depths of Sh’ol.