| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. | 1Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: |
| 2She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. | 2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. |
| 3She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, | 3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, |
| 4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, | 4Whoso 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 I have mixed. | 5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. |
| 6Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.” | 6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. |
| 7Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. | 7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. |
| 8Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. | 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. |
| 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. | 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. |
| 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. | 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. |
| 11For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. | 11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. |
| 12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. | 12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. |
| 13The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. | 13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. |
| 14She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, | 14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, |
| 15calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, | 15To call passengers who go right on their ways: |
| 16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says, | 16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, |
| 17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” | 17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| 18But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. | 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. |
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