Proverbs 9:8-18 ▼

8 Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe thee euyll will: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wyll loue thee.

9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.

10 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome: and the knowledge of holy thinges, is vnderstanding.

11 For thorowe me thy dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeres of thy life shall be many.

12 If thou be wise, thy wysdome shal do thy selfe good: but if thou thinkest scorne therof, it shalbe thine owne harme.

13 A foolishe retchlesse woman full of wordes, and suche a one as hath no knowledge,

14 Sitteth at the doore of her house, and in the hye places of the citie,

15 To call such as go by, and that walke straight in their wayes.

16 Who so is ignoraunt sayeth she let hym come hyther: and to the vnwyse she saith,

17 Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.

18 And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.