King James Version
Proverbs • Chapter 9
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Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
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She prepared a feast; she mixed her wine; she also set her table.
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The young women will call out upon the heights of the city.
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Who is simple? Let him turn in here. To him who lacks heart, she says.
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Go to your food and drink the wine I have mixed.
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Forsake the simple ones and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
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A scoffer does not accept correction, but a wicked person receives rebuke.
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Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
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Give to the wise, and he will become wiser; instruct the righteous, and he will add to his learning.
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The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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For I will extend your days and add years to your life.
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If you have become wise, you have become wise for yourself; and if you mock, you alone will bear it.
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The wife of folly is a noisy one, she is simple and knows nothing.
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And she sat at the entrance of her house on a throne of high places.
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To call to those passing by the way, who make their paths straight.
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"Who is simple, let him turn here; and as for him who lacks heart, she says to him."
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
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And he did not know that there are healers there in the depths of Sheol.