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Proverbs

Proverbs 9 📜 📕 ↷

1 WISDOM hath built herself an house, she hath cut out seven pillars.📜💬📚

2 She hath immolated her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.📜💬📚

3 She hath sent her hand-maids to call to the tower, and to the walls of the city:📜💬📚

4 If any be a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she spake:📜💬📚

5 Come eat ye my bread, & drink the wine which I have mingled for you.📜💬📚

6 Leave infancy, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.📜💬📚

7 He that teacheth a scorner doth injury to himself; and he that rebuketh the impious, purchaseth a blot to himself.📜💬📚

8 Rebuke not the scorner lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.📜💬📚

9 Give occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he shall make haste to take it.📜💬📚

10 The beginning of wisdom, the fear of our Lord: and the knowledge of the holy, prudence.📜💬📚

11 For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.📜💬📚

12 If thou be wise, to thy self thou shalt be: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.📜💬📚

13 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,📜💬📚

14 sat in the doors of her house upon a seat in a high place of the city,📜💬📚

15 to call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:📜💬📚

16 he that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she spake:📜💬📚

17 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread more pleasant.📜💬📚

18 And he was ignorant that giants are there, and her guests in the depths of hell.📜💬📚