Proverbs 9:1-9 ▼

1 Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns;

2 She has prepared her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table.

3 She has sent out her maidservants; she calls from the heights out over the city:

4 “Let whoever is naive turn in here; to any who lack sense I say,

5 Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed!

6 Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding.”

7 Whoever corrects the arrogant earns insults; and whoever reproves the wicked incurs opprobrium.

8 Do not reprove the arrogant, lest they hate you; reprove the wise, and they will love you.

9 Instruct the wise, and they become still wiser; teach the just, and they advance in learning.