^[1]  Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:

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^[2]  She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.

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^[3]  She has sent forth her maidens: she cries on the highest places of the city,

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^[4]  Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,

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^[5]  Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

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^[6]  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

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^[7]  He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.

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^[8]  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

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^[9]  Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just 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 is understanding.

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^[11]  For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

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^[12]  If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it. ¶

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^[13]  A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.

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^[14]  For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

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^[15]  To call passengers who go right on their ways:

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^[16]  Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,

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^[17]  Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

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^[18]  But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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