Proverbs 9

ECB(i) 1 Wisdom built her house; she hewed her pillars - seven; 2 she slaughtered her slaughter; she mixed her wine; she arranged her table; 3 she sent forth her lasses; she calls on the high arches of the city, 4 Whoever is gullible, turn in here! Whoever lacks heart, she says to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I mixed! 6 Forsake the gullible and live; blithesome in the way of discernment. 7 He who disciplines a scorner takes abasement to himself: and he who reproves the wicked blemishes. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you; reprove a wise, and he loves you: 9 give to the wise and he enwisens; the just know, and increase in doctrine. 10 To awe Yah Veh is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is discernment: 11 for by me your days abound and the years of your life increase: 12 in enwisening, enwisen; but if you scorn, you bear it alone. 13 A foolish woman roars; - gullible and knows not what: 14 and she settles at the portal of her house, on a throne in the heights of the city, 15 to call them who pass by the way to straighten their ways, 16 Whoever is gullible, turn in here! - and to whoever lacks heart, she says, 17 Stolen waters sweeten and covert bread pleases! 18 - and he knows not that ghosts are there; and that her called ones are in the depths of sheol.