# Proverbs 9 
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1. Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. 
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2. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. 
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3. She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, 
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4. “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, 
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5. “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 
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6. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.” 
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7. Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. 
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8. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. 
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9. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. 
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10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. 
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11. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. 
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12. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. 
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13. The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. 
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14. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, 
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15. calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, 
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16. “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says, 
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17. “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” 
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18. But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. 

(ESV)