Proverbs 9:1-9 ▼

1 Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.

2 She has prepared her food, she has spiced her wine, and she also has set her dining table.

3 She has sent out her young women, while calling out from the heights of the city,

4 |Let whoever is naïve, turn in here.| To anyone lacking sense, she says,

5 |Come! Eat my food, and drink the wine that I have mixed.

6 Leave your naïve ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding.|

7 Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

8 Don't rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

9 Counsel a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will add to his learning.