The Proverbs 9

^1✦ Wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewn out her seven pillars ⚑

^2✦ She hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also furnished her table ⚑

^3✦ She hath sent forth her maidens she crieth upon the highest places of the city ⚑

^4✦ Whoso is simple let him turn in hither as for him that wanteth understanding she saith to him ⚑

^5✦ Come eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled ⚑

^6✦ Forsake the foolish and live and go in the way of understanding ⚑

^7✦ He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot ⚑

^8✦ Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee ⚑

^9✦ Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning ⚑

^10✦ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding ⚑

^11✦ For by me thy days shall be multiplied and the years of thy life shall be increased ⚑

^12✦ If thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thyself but if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it ⚑

^13✦ A foolish woman is clamorous she is simple and knoweth nothing ⚑

^14✦ For she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city ⚑

^15✦ To call passengers who go right on their ways ⚑

^16✦ Whoso is simple let him turn in hither and as for him that wanteth understanding she saith to him ⚑

^17✦ Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant ⚑

^18✦ But he knoweth not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell ⚑